Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The First Octavo Notebook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD981HZ190BUJF-3czZNX3DsFWvqp3cq-Z4QS4d-9gw/edit?hl=en <br class="br">The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.”
Source: A Memory of Light
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