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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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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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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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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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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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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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