Life experience does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
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Elias Canetti was a 20th-century German language author. Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia →