The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
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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
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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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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