Elias Canetti

"Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre."

"... der vielleicht wichtigster deutsche Aphoristiker dieser Zeit"

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

"You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all."

"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."

"He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.—How contemptible!"