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

Quote by Walter Benjamin

Book:Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin, born on July 15, 1892, and died on September 26, 1940, was a prominent German literary critic whose works profoundly influenced 20th-century literary criticism and cultural theory. more

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