He panted for silence as others do for air. - Elias Canetti

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He panted for silence as others do for air.

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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“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.

One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past.

Say the most personal thing, say it, nothing else matters, don’t be ashamed, the generalities can be found in the newspaper.

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