All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
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Quotes by Elias Canetti
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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.
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.
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.
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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.
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?
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
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