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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Elías Canetti
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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Beauty always has something remote.
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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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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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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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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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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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Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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