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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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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me become better without noticing it become sadder, but enjoy living become more serene, be happy in others belong to no one, grow in everyone love the best, comfort the worst not even hate myself anymore.
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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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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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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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...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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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