Elias Canetti Quotes
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Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
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A mind, lean in its own language. In others, it gets fat.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens.
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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Everything you rejected and pushed aside-take it up again.
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Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
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He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!
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I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.
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You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.
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His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.