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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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...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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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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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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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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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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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 emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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