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“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”

Walter Benjamin

“To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look a...”

“The angel would like to stay awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed But a st...”

“Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance...”

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“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

“Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wi...”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have trav...”

“Hurt me with the truth. Don’t comfort me with a lie”

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the res...”

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“The more you confront the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable with it”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”