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Franz Kafka Quotes: We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
         

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.


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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
         



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