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

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

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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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From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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

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What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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The face is the index of the mind. – Proverb

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What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others. – Confucius

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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. – Joanna Trollope

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