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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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Chemist
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
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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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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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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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Beauty always has something remote.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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