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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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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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...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 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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Beauty always has something remote.
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
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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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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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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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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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