There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is hesitation.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-language writer from Prague whose nightmarish novels and stories - 'The Metamorphosis,' 'The Trial,' 'The Castle' - gave the world the word 'Kafkaesque.' His vision of individuals crushed by incomprehensible bureaucratic forces proved so prophetic that the twentieth century often seems to have been written by him.
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