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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Written by Elias Canetti
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Written by Elias Canetti
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Written by Elias Canetti
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.
Written by Elias Canetti
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Written by Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Written by Elias Canetti
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Written by Elias Canetti
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Written by Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Written by Elias Canetti
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Written by Elias Canetti
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.
Written by Elias Canetti
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Written by Elias Canetti
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.
Written by Elias Canetti
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.
Written by Elias Canetti
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Written by Elias Canetti
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Written by Elias Canetti
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.
Written by Elias Canetti
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Written by Elias Canetti
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.
Written by Elias Canetti
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?
Written by Elias Canetti
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Written by Elias Canetti
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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People's fates are simplified by their names.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Written by Elias Canetti
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Written by Elias Canetti
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Written by Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Written by Elias Canetti
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Written by Elias Canetti
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Written by Elias Canetti

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