Elias Canetti Quotes & Quotations

Elias Canetti Quotes

» 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.

» 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.

» When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

» He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

» 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?

» Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

» As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

» There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

» 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.

» It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

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