"Paradise"
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.
— Franz Kafka
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached." in the context of ""Paradise"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Franz Kafka" (Quotes, Parables and Paradoxes (1946): Many statements from this work are in the earlier section "Aphorisms" (1918) )
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About Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.
About Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.
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