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" "A existência pacífica na maioria das sociedades humanas possui um curso enganoso, procurando encobrir perigos e fissuras. O desaparecimento constante de pessoas de seu meio - pessoas que aqui e ali, subitamente, não se encontram mais entre os vivos - é entendido e explicado de tal forma que é como se elas não tivessem sumido de todo. Dirigimo-nos a elas, em procedimento tranquilizadores de caráter singular, como se ainda pudessem ter parte na sociedade. Em muitos casos, acreditava-se realmente na permanência delas em algum lugar, e sua inveja dos vivos era temida, pois podia acarretar perigosas conseqüências para estes.
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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The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless – and particularly so as regards the future – has, in our society, become the arrest. The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.
The freedom to fail is preserved, as a sort of supreme law, which guarantees escape at every fresh juncture. One is inclined to call this the freedom of the weak person who seeks salvation in defeat. His true uniqueness, his special relation to power, is expressed in the prohibition of victory. All calculations originate and end in impotence.