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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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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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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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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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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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 first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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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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