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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“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“The planet’s survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.”
—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 paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world.... One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)