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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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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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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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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 is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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