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… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
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… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The planets survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
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