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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
Elias Canetti
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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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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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...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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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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