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Elias Canetti spanyol zsidó származású, német nyelvű Nobel-díjas regény- és drámaíró, esszéista.

✵ 25. július 1905 – 14. augusztus 1994  •  Más nevek E. Canetti
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Elias Canetti: 44 idézet1 Kedvelés

Elias Canetti idézetek

„Utazás közben az ember mindent elfogad; a felháborodás otthon marad. Az ember figyel, hallgat, a legszörnyűbb dolgok is lelkesedésre késztetik, mert újak. A jó utazók szívtelenek.”

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Elias Canetti: Idézetek angolul

“I noticed in the front row a small, very pale, almost white man, old, tremendously alert, old in the only way I love old age, namely more alive for all the years, more attentive, more unrelenting, expectant and ready, as though he still had to make up his mind about most things and must not disregard anything.”

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describing Ludwig Hohl, J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 76
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 142
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 108
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 145
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 7
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 146
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 132
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

““He is a lesser figure than X”—how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 74
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

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

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

“I was never drawn to experiment with language; I take note of such experiments, but avoid them in my own writing. The reason is that the substance of life claims me completely. To indulge in linguistic experiments is to ignore the greater part of this substance, leaving all but a tiny portion untouched and unused, as if a musician were to ceaselessly play an instrument with his little finger only.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 3
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.”

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

“You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas—better to write down what refutes and weakens them!”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 60
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 29
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)