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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti
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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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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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...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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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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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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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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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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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