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Elias Canetti

“People should not make a virtue out of their sensitivity. They may experience it and preserve it as it was experienced. But they should not adorn themselves with it. Sensitivity will make an addict out of anyone who displays its medals on his chest. He will require more and more objects to enable him to demonstrate his sensitivity, and if he runs out of them, he will simply make things up - and his sensitivity will then reveal itself for what it is: precious, brittle, and rotted through and through.”

Elias Canetti, The Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations
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The Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations The Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations by Elias Canetti
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