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Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born Swiss and British modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Tags: Help, Forgotten, Scream

Elias Canetti

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

Tags: Funny, Father, Back

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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.

Tags: Making, High, Audience

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

Tags: Justice, Enough, Everyone

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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Tags: Day, Space, Newspaper

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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Tags: Best, Revenge

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

Tags: After, State, President

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