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Brief about Elias Canetti: By info that we know Elias Canetti was born at 1905-07-25. And also Elias Canetti is Swiss Author.

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The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Tags: Become, Future, Thought

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

Tags: Doubt, End, Time

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

Tags: Fun, Human, Making

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Tags: Frequently, Old, Words

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.

Tags: Dead, Off, Time

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Tags: Cannot, Failure, Himself

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.

Tags: Hand, Order, Thoughts

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Tags: Dreams, Forgotten, Help

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

Tags: Arranged, Head, Stars

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.

Tags: Child, Children, Enjoy

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.

Tags: Darkness, Fear, Unexpected

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Tags: Enough, Food, Justice

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Tags: Accusation, Hate, Love

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Tags: Lie, Someone, True

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Tags: Boring, Pessimists

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Tags: Invent, Victim, War

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Tags: Night, Single, Writing

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.

Tags: Able, Him, Strange

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

Tags: Death, Guilty, Obsessed

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Tags: Deaf, Else, Success
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