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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
~ Elias Canetti
Aphorism
Each
Great
Had
Known
Other
Read
Well
Writers
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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
Because
Cannot
Difference
Even
Exact
Failure
He
Himself
Image
Impressive
Might
More
Only
Only Difference
Position
Ruler
Shaken
Sufficient
Think
Two
Unto
World
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The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
~ Elias Canetti
Amount
Any
Assured
Become
Effort
Future
Gamble
Mad
Planet
Survival
Thought
Uncertain
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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
About
Each
Each Night
Even
Infinite
Interrupted
Night
Process
Single
Something
Though
Writing
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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
About
Appear
Disappears
Hand
Lot
Order
Palm
Philosophers
Something
Suddenly
Them
Thoughts
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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
~ Elias Canetti
Beginning
Doubt
End
His
Just
Man
No Doubt
Same
Same Time
Sight
Study
Time
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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
Death
Dying
Earth
Every
Hear
Language
Me
Only
Thing
Though
Today
Ugly
Were
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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
Able
Always
Anything
Avoid
Classify
Contact
Fears
He
Him
Least
Man
More
Nothing
Physical
Reaching
Recognize
See
Strange
Tends
Than
Touch
Towards
Unknown
Wants
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
~ Elias Canetti
About
Contain
Down
Ever
Every
Heard
Life
No-One
Page
Should
Something
Write
You
Your
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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
~ Elias Canetti
Animal
Being
Closely
Feel
Fun
Human
Human Being
Inside
Making
Observe
Sitting
Were
Whenever
You
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
~ Elias Canetti
About
Dead
God
Him
Impossible
Keep
Long
Silent
Whether
Who
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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
~ Elias Canetti
Frequently
Old
Only
People
Same
Too
Use
Words
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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
~ Ella Maillart
Alive
Because
Certain
Feel
Fully
Give
Impression
Keep
Keep Moving
Moving
Only
Then
Travellers
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Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
~ Ella Maillart
Birthright
Conquer
Every
Every Time
Felt
Going
Home
Inheritance
Leave
Long
Possession
Rather
Take
Time
Took
Were
World
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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
~ Ella Maillart
Against
Beginning
Desire
Life
Live
My Own
Own
Patiently
Tide
Up
Wanted
Wind
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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
~ Ella Maillart
Different
Each
His
Humanity
Individuals
Infinity
Made
Motives
Own
Travels
Up
Us
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
~ Ella Maillart
Am
Cut
Everything
I Am
Instinctively
Man
Marry
Otherwise
Possess
Rose
Sure
Why
Wish
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I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
~ Ella Maillart
Around
Concept
Even
Feeling
I Can
Makes
No Sense
Now
Our
Out
References
Relationships
See
Sense
Spin
Substance
Unless
Values
Web
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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
~ Ella Maillart
Ambition
Between
Depressed
Did
Existing
Gap
Want
Weakness
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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
~ Ella Maillart
Big
Conditioning
Direct
Feared
Gained
Knowledge
Life
Lived
Mechanism
Poor
Towns
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