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Elias Canetti

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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
—Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments

Posted on March 12, 2003 at 9:44 PM

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