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Elias Canetti Inspirational Quotes (47)

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Travelling, one accepts everything indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest
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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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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.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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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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