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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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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? – 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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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Words have meaning and names have power. – Author Unknown

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