Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing it is the purity and beauty of a failure.
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