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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
Elias Canetti
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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Elías Canetti
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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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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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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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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 not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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