Elias Canetti

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ”

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. ”

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ”

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ”

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. ”

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. ”

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. ”

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. ”

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. ”

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ”