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People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
- Elias Canetti
#Accusation
#Hate
#Love
#People
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
#Earth
#Language
#Me
#Today
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.
- Elias Canetti
#Difference
#Failure
#Image
#Two
#World
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
#Decision
#Disaster
#Eyes
#People
#Walk
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
- Elias Canetti
#Better
#Make
#Men
#Only
#Religions
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
- Elias Canetti
#Down
#Every
#Life
#Page
#Something
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
- Elias Canetti
#Great
#Known
#Other
#Read
#Well
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
- Elias Canetti
#Enough
#Everyone
#Food
#Justice
#Should
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
#Being
#Darkness
#Fear
#Only
#Unexpected
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
- Elias Canetti
#How
#Idea
#Matter
#Matters
#New
People's fates are simplified by their names.
- Elias Canetti
#Fates
#Names
#People
#Simplified
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
- Elias Canetti
#Constellations
#Head
#His
#Made
#Stars
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
#Deception
#Find
#Out
#Practice
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
- Elias Canetti
#Applause
#Deaf
#Else
#Listens
#Only
#Success
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
- Elias Canetti
#Craving
#Endorsement
#Life
#Should
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
#Always
#Avoid
#Man
#Nothing
#Strange
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
- Elias Canetti
#Day
#Newspaper
#Occupies
#Space
#Success
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
- Elias Canetti
#Dreams
#Forgotten
#Help
#Scream
#Things
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