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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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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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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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...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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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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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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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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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest
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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 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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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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