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Quote by Elias Canetti
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown

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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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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