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“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his convictions.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

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“The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence,—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

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“He was so entranced, he was so charmed, so captivated-rolled out flat, dreamed into, shone upon-that when she said his name, English started to live.”
― Denis Johnson, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

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“She was resting at a table between numbers in the Greek nightclub where she was dancing. A little of the stage light touched her. She was very frail. She seemed to be thinking about something far away, waiting patiently for somebody to destroy her.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

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“In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging. These latter are melancholics, for whom contact with mother earth is to be shunned. They seek the person who will keep far from them the homeland’s sadness. To that person, they remain faithful.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

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