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“Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.”

— Franz Kafka

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Wikiquote: Franz Kafka
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Context

In conversation with Max Brod (1920), after Brod had queried on there being "hope outside this manifestation of the world that we know", as quoted in Franz Kafka: A Biography [Franz Kafka, eine Biographie] (1937) by Max Brod, as translated by G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston (1947; 1960); at

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Kafka, Franz. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Franz Kafka. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka

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