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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
Swiss Author
Born: Jul 25, 1905
Died: Aug 13, 1994
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Related authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. S. Lewis Frederick Douglass George Orwell Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Zig Ziglar
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. Elias Canetti
Love Hate People Accusation
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. Elias Canetti
Made Stars Constellations Head Arranged His
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
Practice Enjoy Consider Pleasure Out Find Adult Also Very Quickly Child Deceiving Children Deception Themselves Then Figure Necessary
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
Man Strange Fears Nothing Unknown Recognize Physical See Able Touch Classify More Tends He Contact Towards Reaching Him Always Least Than Anything Wants Avoid
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. Elias Canetti
Success Else Only Deaf Listens Applause
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Elias Canetti
Writing Single Though About Something Infinite Process Notation Even Each Each Night Night Interrupted
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Elias Canetti
Death Made Guilty He Obsessed Who
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. Elias Canetti
Good Bad Could He Know Person Capable Might
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
Time Man Drop Oppose Nothing Add Lice Only He Like Dead Limb Because Off Modern Modern Man Modernism
People's fates are simplified by their names. Elias Canetti
People Simplified Names Fates
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. Elias Canetti
You Animal Human Being Inside Observe Feel Making Were Closely Sitting Human Whenever Being Fun

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