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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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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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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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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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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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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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