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Elias Canetti

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.


— Elias Canetti


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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.


— Elias Canetti


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About Elias Canetti

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Did you know about Elias Canetti?

Canetti spent his childhood years from 1905 to 1911 in Ruse until the family moved to Britain. Before settling in Ruse they had lived in Livorno in the 17th century. The original family name was Cañete named after a village in Spain.

He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 "for writings marked by a broad outlook a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

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