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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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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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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 want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Beauty always has something remote.
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...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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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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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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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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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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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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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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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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