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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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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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Failure
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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

Category:
Modern, Modernism
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Elias Canetti
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Death
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Names
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Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

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Names

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

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Names

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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Names

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

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Names

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Americans have discovered fear. – Jose Saramago

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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. – Author Unknown

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