“He is a lesser figure than X”—how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse. - Elias Canetti
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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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Contudo, o sentimento em relação às terras distantes permanece, e o interesse por elas jamais arrefece. Assim, o homem cavouca, insaciável, em épocas passadas e em culturas desconhecidas. A rigidez da própria existência aumenta, e essas épocas e culturas oferecem o instrumento inesgotável para a transformação.
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En todos estos últimos años, mientras ponía en negro sobre blanco mis soberbias frases contra la muerte, personas han sido torturadas y asesinadas de la manera más vil.
La violencia de los poderosos ha provocado la violencia de los depauperados. Nada resulta más comprensible, y mucho me cuidaré de equipararlas. Sin embargo, hay algo en la violencia que nadie ha examinado a fondo aún, y es eso lo que debería suceder por fin.