His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.
Elias Canetti Quotes
1905–1994 Bulgaria
Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.
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38 quotes
It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Ambition is the death of thought.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
He will not do death the honor of taking it into account.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Everything one has forgotten cries for help in the dream.
Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Everything you rejected and pushed aside—take it up again.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.
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.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elias Canetti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.