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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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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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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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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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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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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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