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Elias Canetti on Books

1905–1994 Bulgaria

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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.

Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)

It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.

Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock (1987)

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