All Elias Canetti Quotes
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
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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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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
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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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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
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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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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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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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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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