Elias Canetti was a Bulgaria-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.
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“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
Elias Canetti
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”
“It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.”
“Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.”
“Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.”
“Most religions do not make men better, only warier”
“Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.”
“Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.”
“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”
“His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.”