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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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Elías Canetti
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me become better without noticing it become sadder, but enjoy living become more serene, be happy in others belong to no one, grow in everyone love the best, comfort the worst not even hate myself anymore.
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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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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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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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