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Elias Canetti Quotes

Elias Canetti quotes

Swiss Author, Playwright July 25, 1905 – August 13, 1994

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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
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
Elias Canetti quote: "All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti quote: "All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti quote: "He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it."
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti quote: "Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human..."
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. Elias Canetti
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
Elias Canetti quote: "Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all..."
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti quote: "The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known..."
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. Elias Canetti
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. Elias Canetti
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
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it. Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti quote: "seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is..."
...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203] Elias Canetti
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. Elias Canetti
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. Elias Canetti

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