"History portrays everything as if it could not……" — Elias Canetti
"History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened."
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64 Quotes by Elias Canetti
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- All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
- Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly…
- The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and…
- His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
- Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production…
- Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with…
- There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
- Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
- In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
- One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
- A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The…
- There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching…
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