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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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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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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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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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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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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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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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