Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
Elias Canettiwas a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 July 1905
CountrySwitzerland
history sides ifs
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.