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Learning is the art of ignoring.

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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Ignoring

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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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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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.
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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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...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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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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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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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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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