“Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.”

—  Franz Kafka

Comment to a fish, after becoming a vegetarian, p. 74 http://books.google.com/books?id=6TNVWo7S6n8C&pg=PA74&dq=kafka+look+peace+eat#PPA74,M1
Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960)

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