Elias Canetti: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

Elias Canetti era scrittore, saggista e aforista bulgaro. Frasi in inglese.
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“You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.”

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Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 61
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas—better to write down what refutes and weakens them!”

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Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 60
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.”

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 29
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)