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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#always #artist #being #ever #every

All disgust is originally disgust at touching. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#originally #touching

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#human #human knowledge #interpretation #knowledge #takes

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#being #care #i #i can #lead

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

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#gifts #must #point #receiver #shock

I don't really like this song," Emma had said. "You told me it was your favourite." "It's beautiful. But it always makes me sad." "Why, love?" he'd asked gently. "It's about finding each other again. About someone coming home." Emma had lifted her head from his shoulder and looked at him earnestly. "It's about losing someone, and having to wait until you're together in heaven." "There's nothing in the lyrics about heaven," he'd said. "But that's what it means. I can't bear the idea of being separated from you, for a lifetime or a year or even a day. So you mustn't go to heaven without me." "Of course not," he had whispered. "It wouldn't be heaven without you. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #beauty

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#hope #only #sake #those #us

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#philosophy #skepticism #virtue #well

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#masses #much #perception #process #reality