Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was… — 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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