“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.”

— Franz Kafka, book Parables and Paradoxes

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Parables and Paradoxes (1946)

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