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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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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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

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

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Names

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

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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Names

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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. – Greek Proverb

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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. – Audre Lorde

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. – Matthew Prior

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I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. – Mehmet Oz

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