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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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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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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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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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 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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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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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 doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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