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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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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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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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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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. 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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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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