Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a Swiss modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".
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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 (b. 1905)
“One should use praise to recognize what one is not.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)