Elias Canetti Quotes
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused...
Show MoreThe process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it...
Show MoreA tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all ma...
Show MoreThere are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, ...
Show MoreFor I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a m...
Show MoreAt this point, the jealousy that tortured me all my life commenced, and the force with which it came...
Show MoreAt home in the nursery, I usually played alone. Actually, I seldom played, I spoke to the wallpaper....
Show MoreThe fluid boundary between individuals and types is a true concern of the real writer.
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly p...
Show MoreEvery command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.
Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act i...
Show MoreShe was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old;...
Show MoreHis meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of...
Show MoreAll things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
