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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
~ Elias Canetti
Add
Because
Dead
Drop
He
Lice
Like
Limb
Man
Modern
Modern Man
Modernism
Nothing
Off
Only
Oppose
Time
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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.
~ Elias Canetti
Adult
Also
Child
Children
Consider
Deceiving
Deception
Enjoy
Figure
Find
Necessary
Out
Pleasure
Practice
Quickly
Themselves
Then
Very
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~ Elias Canetti
Dreams
Forgotten
Help
Scream
Things
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
~ Elias Canetti
Bad
Capable
Could
Good
He
Know
Might
Person
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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
Even
Every
Eyes
Leads
Liberating
Many
Misfortune
Open
Open Eyes
Otherwise
People
So Many People
Upright
Walk
Why
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
~ Elias Canetti
Death
Guilty
He
Made
Obsessed
Who
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His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
~ Elias Canetti
Arranged
Constellations
Head
His
Made
Stars
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
~ Elias Canetti
Becomes
How
Idea
Matter
Matters
New
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
~ Elias Canetti
Also
Contribute
Eat
Enough
Everyone
Food
Justice
Production
Requires
Should
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
~ Elias Canetti
Better
Make
Men
Most
Only
Religions
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
~ Elias Canetti
Confuse
Craving
Endorsement
Life
Should
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
~ Elias Canetti
Praise
Recognize
Should
Use
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People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
~ Elias Canetti
Accusation
Hate
Love
People
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People's fates are simplified by their names.
~ Elias Canetti
Fates
Names
People
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
~ Elias Canetti
Boring
Pessimists
Right
Superfluous
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
~ Elias Canetti
First
Invent
Know
Must
Procure
Rulers
Very
Victim
Want
War
Well
Who
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
~ Elias Canetti
Always
Discovers
Every
His
Lie
Lies
Someone
True
Who
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
~ Elias Canetti
Day
Insolence
Newspaper
Occupies
Space
Success
Success Is
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
~ Elias Canetti
Applause
Deaf
Else
Listens
Only
Success
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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
Also
Being
Burglar
Clutch
Darkness
Fear
Only
Out
Robbed
Sudden
Unexpected
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Elias Canetti
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BirthDate
25 July, 1905
DeathDate
13 August, 1994
Country
Switzerland
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