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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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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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