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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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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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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 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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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