People's fates are simplified by their names.
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.Elias Canetti
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
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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.
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