"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."
Elias Canetti

January 1, 1970

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J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 61

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