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Elias Canetti was a 20th-century German language author. Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
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“Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages”
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“It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thi...”
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“Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command fun...”
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“Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.”
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“For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimate...”
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