Elias Canetti

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. ”

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. ”

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. ”

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? ”

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ”

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. ”

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. ”

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. ”

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. ”

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. ”