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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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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest
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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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