Benjamin Wrote

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“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)