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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1283/">Quotes by <em>Canetti, Elias</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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

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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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"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight."

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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."

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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."

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

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"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it."

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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 paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."

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