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

— Walter Benjamin

#because #dying #end #epic #out

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#desire #love #pain #sadness #life

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destructive #feeling #life #lives #living

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#expression #favour #free #free expression #i

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#best #best way #divide #into #need

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#been #being #considerable #country #crisis

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#being #chord #composer #decide #did

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. ↗

— William Bennett

#make #our #peace #surrounded #too

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#blind #blind person #describe #guess #i