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

— Walter Benjamin

#aware #be happy #become #fright #happy

Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.' And so we did. ↗

— Jim Beaver

#inspirational #life #love #beauty

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. ↗

— Hans Bender

#earth #evil #exist #fear #good

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours. ↗

— Hans Bender

#forms #richer #than #yours

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#been #being #easy #face #joyous

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#anticipation #back #city #come #dread

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conditional #fiction #open #science #science fiction

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#because #dollar #follow #interest #lead

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source." These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#craft #different #fiction #otherwise #play