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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Elias Canetti

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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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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest
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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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