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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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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.
Elias Canetti
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
Elias Canetti -
Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
Elias Canetti -
I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.
Elias Canetti -
'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
Elias Canetti -
One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
Elias Canetti -
His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.
Elias Canetti