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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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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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