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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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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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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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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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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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