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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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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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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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 paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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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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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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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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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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