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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?
— Elias Canetti
Tags: decision, people, walk, eyes

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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
— Elias Canetti
Tags: about, palm, something, thoughts
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
— Elias Canetti
Tags: want, who, know, war
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
— Elias Canetti
Tags: superfluous, right, boring
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
— Elias Canetti
Tags: infinite, single, writing, night
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.
— Elias Canetti
Tags: dead, nothing, time, man
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