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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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 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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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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