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" "His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.
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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The crowd is the same everywhere, in all periods and cultures; it remains essentially the same among men of the most diverse origin, education and language. Once in being, it spreads with the utmost violence. Few can resist its contagion; it always wants to go on growing and there are no inherent limits to its growth. It can arise wherever people are together, and its spontaneity and suddenness are uncanny.
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A existência pacífica na maioria das sociedades humanas possui um curso enganoso, procurando encobrir perigos e fissuras. O desaparecimento constante de pessoas de seu meio - pessoas que aqui e ali, subitamente, não se encontram mais entre os vivos - é entendido e explicado de tal forma que é como se elas não tivessem sumido de todo. Dirigimo-nos a elas, em procedimento tranquilizadores de caráter singular, como se ainda pudessem ter parte na sociedade. Em muitos casos, acreditava-se realmente na permanência delas em algum lugar, e sua inveja dos vivos era temida, pois podia acarretar perigosas conseqüências para estes.