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Quote by Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose i

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

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Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. – Samuli Paronen

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