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Franz Kafka Quotes: There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
         

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.


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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.



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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.



I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.



I am free and that is why I am lost.

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