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Walter Benjamin

"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."

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"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."

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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

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"I am alive because you want me to."

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"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

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"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."

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"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"

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"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

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"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."

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