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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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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Elías Canetti
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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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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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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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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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 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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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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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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