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• Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

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  God, Long, Impossible

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• People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

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  Hate, Self, People

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• There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

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  Force, Superlatives, Emanate

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• He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

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  Scratches, Statistics

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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.

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  Mad, Effort, Survival

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• A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

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  Children

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• It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

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  Death, Men, Important

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• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

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  Darkness, Unexpected, Crime

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

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  Philosophical, Despair, Records

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• Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

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  Deaf, Applause

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• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

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  Men, Lice, Add

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• He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

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  Death, Dying, Obsession

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• Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

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  Success, Space, One Day

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• A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

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  Stars, Constellations

  "AWP 2014 Journals". logger.believermag.com. August 4, 2014.

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• I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

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  Want, Smashing, Whole

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• Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

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  People, Use, Ifs

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• One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

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  Inspirational, Use, Literature

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• I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

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  Trying, Relax, Energy

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• Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

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  Believe, Goal, Condescension And

  Elias Canetti, Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1947). “The tower of Babel”

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• People's fates are simplified by their names.

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  Fate, Names, People

  "William and Kate: whatever you do, don't call him Kevin" by Jason Goldman, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

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  Machines, Scandal, Hostage

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