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Elias Canetti

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All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.


— Elias Canetti


#dreams

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages


— Elias Canetti


#death

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


— Elias Canetti


#constellations #head #his #into #made

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


— Elias Canetti


#hate #love #people

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


— Elias Canetti


#pessimists #right #superfluous

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


— Elias Canetti


#discovers #every #his #lie #lies

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


— Elias Canetti


#guilty #made #obsessed #who

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


— Elias Canetti


#each #even #infinite #interrupted #night

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


#being #burglars #clutch #darkness #fear

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


— Elias Canetti


#contribute #eat #enough #everyone #food






About Elias Canetti

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Did you know about Elias Canetti?

Canetti spent his childhood years from 1905 to 1911 in Ruse until the family moved to Britain. Before settling in Ruse they had lived in Livorno in the 17th century. The original family name was Cañete named after a village in Spain.

He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 "for writings marked by a broad outlook a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

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