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

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

In the original German

Gliicklicb sein heiflt ohne Schrecken seiner selbst inne- werden konnen.

One Way Street · 1979
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Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.
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Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

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