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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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Elías Canetti
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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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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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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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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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...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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