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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 want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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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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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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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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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...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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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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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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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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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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