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Experience 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…
- Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
- Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.…
- Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
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- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson