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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin
Age: 48 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 15
Died: 1940
Died: September 26
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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