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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

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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Absence
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Walter Benjamin
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience
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Walter Benjamin
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. – Kahlil Gibran

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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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Perception

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. – Medard Boss

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Perception

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. – G. K. Chesterton

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