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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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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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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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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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...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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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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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Beauty always has something remote.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
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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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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
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