Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
From Elias Canetti
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
People's fates are simplified by their names.
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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.
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