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Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born swiss and british jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994).
Died August 14th, 1994 at 89 years old in Zurich.
Occupations
aphorist, chemist, essayist, novelist, playwright, writer
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde