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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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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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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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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
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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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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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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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One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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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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The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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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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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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