"All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one."

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Walter Benjamin

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“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
“He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.”
“In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.”

Source : "Quotations", QFinance, October 20, 2007.
“Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.”
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.”

Source : "Weiwei-isms, By Ai Weiwei, trans. Larry Warsh". www.independent.co.uk. January 11, 2013.
“Donâ€™t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You canâ€™t rush inspiration. â€¦ Once your subject finds you, itâ€™s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me.”
“Thank you,â€ he was whispering, â€œthank you, thank you.â€¦â€ And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.”

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