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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.
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I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
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Officials are highly educated but one-sided in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
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