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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.

— Elias Canetti Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)

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His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.

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It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.

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Ambition is the death of thought.

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He will not do death the honor of taking it into account.

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If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word “God” merely because it was always there.

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