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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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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