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Travelling, one accepts everything indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

Elias Canetti

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
Aphorist
Author
Chemist
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
Everything
Listens
Looks
Indignation
Good
Accepts
Roused
Things
Dreadful
Travellers
Stays
Enthusiasm
Travelling
Accepting
Heartless
Home
Traveller

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