“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day’s insolence.”

Elias Canetti
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“He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.”

Elias Canetti
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“One should use praise to recognize what one is not.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Praise
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“When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pessimism
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“One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Lying
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“It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ideas
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“There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.”

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humankind
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“As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn’t know the bad he might do.”

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

Elias Canetti
Submitted by Quonation |Category: God