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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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Travelling, one accepts everything indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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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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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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