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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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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You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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