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Elias Canetti Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Austria
  • Born: Jul 25, 1905
  • Died: Aug 14, 1994

Elias Canetti was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.