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"All disgust is originally disgust at touching."

Walter Benjamin, German Critic

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"All disgust is originally disgust at touching."

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"All disgust is originally disgust at touching."

Walter Benjamin, German Critic

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

"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."

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"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

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