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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Beauty always has something remote.
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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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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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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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