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No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing..
Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
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