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Elias Canetti was Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on other.

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“Is there still a possibility of public truth?
The prime condition for that would be that you pose your own questions, not just answer them. The questions of others have a distorting influence, one adapts to them, accepts words and concepts that should be avoided at all costs.
Ideally, you should use only words which you have filled with new meaning.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 5
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 20
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 61
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“A mind, lean in its own language. In others, it gets fat.”

Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 48
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)