Quote by Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doe

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Writing
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Legacy
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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. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Mystery
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Other Quotes from
Goodness
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. – Bertolt Brecht

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Goodness

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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Goodness

Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. – Proverb

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Goodness

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Goodness

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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. – Kary Mullis

Category:
Christmas

You think about some of the most memorable meals youve ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste. – Heston Blumenthal

Category:
Food

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Mental Illness

Because Im always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, Ive lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who dont pick up after themselves. – Kellan Lutz

Category:
Trust