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

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

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

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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