Elias Canetti Quote

The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.


J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 29 - Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)


The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure,...

The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure,...

The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure,...

The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure,...