He [Kafka] did not have for his private and interior proces… - Elias Canetti

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He [Kafka] did not have for his private and interior processes that disregard which distinguishes insignificant writers from writers of imagination. A person who thinks that he is empowered to separate his inner world from the outer one has no inner world from which something might be separable.

Elias Canetti

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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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Ονειρεύομαι έναν άνθρωπο που ξεμαθαίνει όλες τις γλώσσες της γης, ώσπου να μην καταλαβαίνει σε καμιά χώρα αυτό που λέγεται.

He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.—How contemptible!

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

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