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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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Chemist
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
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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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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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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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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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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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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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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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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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