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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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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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Mystery
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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

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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

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Modern, Modernism
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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Names

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

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Names

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton

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Names

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

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Names

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