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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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Elías Canetti
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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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 can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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