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Letter "E" » Elias Canetti Quotes
«One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.»
«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.»
«People's fates are simplified by their names.»
«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.»
«Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you»
«Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Elias Canetti
(Novelist, Playwright)
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«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.»
«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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