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66Only two quotes by Elias Canetti99

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 - 14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

❝The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.❞ [+]

❝You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to loose its dangerous magic.❞ [+]

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