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Learning is the art of ignoring.

Elias Canetti

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Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
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Rousse
Elías Canetti
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Ignoring

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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
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Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
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...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?
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