It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti
A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877