Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. – Elias Canetti
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
Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl