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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Elias Canetti
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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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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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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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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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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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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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