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...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
Aphorist
Author
Chemist
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
Sitting
Fool
Office
Instead
Leaping
Eyes
Onto
Eye
Shut
Home
Opening
Train

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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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