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Seizing and incorporating ... There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]
— Elias Canetti
The fluid boundary between individuals and types is a true concern of the real writer.
— Elias Canetti
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
— Elias Canetti
A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
— Elias Canetti
I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!
— Elias Canetti
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
— Elias Canetti
The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]
— Elias Canetti
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
— Elias Canetti
Learning is the art of ignoring.
— Elias Canetti
Relearn astonishment.
— Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
— Elias Canetti
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
— Elias Canetti
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
— Elias Canetti
One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
— Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
— Elias Canetti
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
— Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
— Elias Canetti
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
— Elias Canetti
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
— Elias Canetti
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
— Elias Canetti
Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.
— Elias Canetti
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
— Elias Canetti
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
— Elias Canetti