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Quote by Walter Benjamin
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without frigh

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Walter Benjamin
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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Translation
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swans egg. – Hans Christian Andersen

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake

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