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Elias Canetti Biography

Elias Canetti (/kəˈnɛti, kɑː-/; Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to the continent. They settled in Vienna.

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I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

Trying, Relax, Energy, Saying, Imagine

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

Decision, Disaster, Ifs, Liberating

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Dying, Earth, Overwhelms, Though, Ugly

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

Animal, Closely, Fun, Funny, Sitting, Whenever

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

Everyone, Food, Justice, Literature, Should Have

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

Invent, Peace, Rulers, Want, War

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Make, Men, Religion, Religions, Warier

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

Capable, Good, Goodness, Literature, Might, Person

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Aphorism, Aphorisms, Inspirational, Read, Wells, Writers

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Adjusting, Boredom, Effect, People

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

Fear, Fears, Prejudice, Transformation

. . . how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

Eye, Eyes, Home, Office, Opening, Shut

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

Frequently, Ifs, Old, People, Use, Words

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

Everything, Happened, History, Portrays, Sides

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Inspirational, Literature, Praise, Recognize, Use

In eternity everything is just beginning.

Beginning, Eternity, Everything

People's fates are simplified by their names

Fate, Fates, Names, People, Simplified

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

Keep, Smashing, Want, Whole

Beauty always has something remote.

Beauty, Remote

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

Deceit, Discovers, Lie, Lies, Literature, Lying

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