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" Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. "
Elias Canetti
War
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" One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. "
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" When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. "
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