“"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.”

(June 1914)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

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