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

Category:
Legacy
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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

Category:
Modern, Modernism
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Elias Canetti
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. – Elias Canetti

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

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Names

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

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Names

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

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Names

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

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Names

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