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Franz Kafka Quotes
Evil is whatever distracts.
[Böse ist das, was ablenkt.]
Source:
Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (Schocken Books, ed. 1954), Chapter 3. The Eight Octavo Notebooks, Page 75
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Franz Kafka
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Writer, Novelist
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July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
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