Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk
Thursday November 21st, 2024

Elias Canetti Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Austria
  • Born: Jul 25, 1905
  • Died: Aug 14, 1994

Elias Canetti was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

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

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

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

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. success

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. fear

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

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