Quote by Elias Canetti
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every lan

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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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. – Elias Canetti

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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti

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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death. – Daniel Boone

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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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You dont have people chanting Death to America in Israel. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. – William Lloyd Garrison

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