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Elias Canetti - From the Beauty category:
Beauty always has something remote. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Boredom category:
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Choices category:
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? (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Destiny category:
People's fates are simplified by their names. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Dreams category:
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Earth category:
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Ego category:
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Energy category:
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!' (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Fear category:
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Fear category:
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. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Ideas category:
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Language category:
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. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Life category:
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Love category:
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Modernism category:
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. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Optimism category:
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Philosophy category:
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)
Elias Canetti - From the Recognition category:
One should use praise to recognize what one is not. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Religion category:
Most religions do not make men better, only warier. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Religion category:
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Success category:
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Truth category:
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Writing category:
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they all had known each other very well. (Elias Canetti)
Elias Canetti - From the Writing category:
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. (Elias Canetti)
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