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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
Elias Canetti
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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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