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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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
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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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.
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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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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
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