Quote by Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti

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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. – Elias Canetti

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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – 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

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Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. – William Warburton, “Sermon IV”

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Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System

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I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said that “you are what you eat,” but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXI, The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman&

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