“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rat…”

“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.”

— Franz Kafka

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Title: Wikiquote: Franz Kafka
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"Paradise"

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

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