“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
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Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is noted for his nonfiction book *Crowds and Power,* among other works.
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“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
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“Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages”
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“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any so...”
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“If gazelles had a religion and the lion was their god they could, in order to appease his appetite, voluntarily surrender one of their number to him. This is exactly what happens among men:...”
“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even wh...”
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“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”
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“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.”
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“His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.”
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“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.”
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“People's fates are simplified by their names.”
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“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.”
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“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.”
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“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”
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“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?”
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“Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.”
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“Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.”
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“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.”
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