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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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 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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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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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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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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