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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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More quotes by Elias Canetti
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.
Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
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.
Elias Canetti
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
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
Elias Canetti
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.
Elias Canetti
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti
Beauty always has something remote.
Elias Canetti
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
Elias Canetti
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
Elias Canetti
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
Elias Canetti
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
Elias Canetti
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.
Elias Canetti
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
Elias Canetti
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Elias Canetti
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
Elias Canetti
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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