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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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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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. – Walter Benjamin

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Memory
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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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Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large. – George Carlin

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So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it – Douglas Adams

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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. – M. Shawn Cole

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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. – Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism

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Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps. – Joe Murray

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. – Ambrose Bierce

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