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    Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
    —Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

    As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn’t know the bad he might do.
    —Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

    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.
    —Elias Canetti (b. 1905)