Languages are not strangers to on another.

Walter Benjamin
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  3. You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. - John Green

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  5. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. - Marcel Duchamp

More Quotes By Walter Benjamin
  1. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  2. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  3. Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

  4. Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  5. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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