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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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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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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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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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