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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
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
Home
Traveller
Everything
Listens
Looks
Indignation
Good
Accepts
Things
Dreadful
Roused
Stays
Travellers
Enthusiasm
Travelling
Accepting
Heartless

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