I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, eve… - Elias Canetti
" "I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
About Elias Canetti
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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"Border crossings in the Balkans, where bitter wars have been waged, were not regarded as pleasurable; in many places, they weren't even possible, and one avoided them. But, while riding in the droshky and later, when we dismounted, we saw the most luxuriant orchards and vegetable gardens, dark-violet eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, gigantic pumpkins and melons; I couldn't get over my amazement at all the different things that grew here. "That's what it's like here", said Mother, "a blessed land. And it's a civilized land, no one should be ashamed of being born here.
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É parte desse aprendizado, sobretudo, que estejamos nós próprios impregnados por um modelo, ao qual nos apegamos em todas as circunstâncias, do qual não duvidamos, ao qual não renunciamos, que gostaríamos de alcançar e, no entanto, jamais alcançamos totalmente. Mesmo se o tivéssemos alcançado, jamais nos seria permitido admitir que o fizemos, pois com isso o modelo alcançado perde sua força. Ele só nutre àquele que se vê distante dele. A tentativa de superar essa distância, a tentativa de, por assim dizer, acossar o modelo, deve ser efetuada renovadamente, mas jamais obter êxito. E, enquanto não o obtiver, enquanto a tensão da distância se conservar, o salto em direção ao modelo poderá sempre ser tentado de novo. Importantes são essas tentativas aparentemente vãs — aparentemente, pois é no decorrer delas que acumulamos uma experiência, uma capacidade, uma qualidade após a outra.