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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Elias Canetti

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
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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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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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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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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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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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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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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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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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