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Elias Canetti

Birthday: July 25, 1905
Deathday: August 13, 1994
Category: Swiss Author
Type: Author
National: Swiss

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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

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