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Quote by Franz Kafka
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, m

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka

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