Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things becaus… - Elias Canetti

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Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

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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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Alternative Names: Elías Canetti
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Fra le vene più salienti nella vita della massa c'è qualcosa che chiameremmo forse senso di persecuzione, una particolare e irosa suscettibilità, nei confronti dei nemici designati come tali una volta per tutte. Essi possono fare tutto ciò che vogliono, possono essere rigidi e disponibili, impegnati o freddi, duri o miti – le loro azioni sono sempre intese come se scaturissero da un'imperturbabile malvagità.

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