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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Elias Canetti

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Chemist
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
Nothing
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Men
Drop
Time
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Lice
Like
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Limb
Modern
Modernism
Literature
Modernity
Wells
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Oppose

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