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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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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 first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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