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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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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? – Elias Canetti

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Decisions
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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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Elias Canetti
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Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. – Terri Guillemets

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

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

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