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I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Austrian

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