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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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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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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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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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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
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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 emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
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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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Learning is the art of ignoring.
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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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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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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
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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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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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