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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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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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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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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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I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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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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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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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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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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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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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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