Quote by Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowi

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – 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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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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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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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. – Hebrew Proverb

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. – H.L. Mencken, about Shakespeare

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Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. – Ramsay, as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotation

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[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else… – Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,

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