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Dead Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium…
- The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which…
- A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from…
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- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden