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Elias Canetti (Writer)

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
— Elias Canetti stars
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
— Elias Canetti food
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
— Elias Canetti success
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.
— Elias Canetti fear
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
— Elias Canetti dreams
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.
— Elias Canetti children
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
— Elias Canetti love
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
— Elias Canetti lies
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
— Elias Canetti war
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
— Elias Canetti religion
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
— Elias Canetti life
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
— Elias Canetti idea
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 future
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
— Elias Canetti good
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
— Elias Canetti life
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
— Elias Canetti space
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
— Elias Canetti man
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.
— Elias Canetti fear
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.
— Elias Canetti death
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 thoughts
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 people
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
— Elias Canetti right
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
— Elias Canetti writing
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
— Elias Canetti death
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
— Elias Canetti dead

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