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#52Reflections on sin, pain, hope, and the true way*Franz Kafka

There is only a spiritual world; what we call the physical world is the evil in the spiritual one, and what we call evil is only a necessary moment in our endless development.

In a light that is fierce and strong one can see the world dissolve. To weak eyes it becomes solid, to weaker eyes it shows fists, before still weaker eyes it feels ashamed and smites down him who dares look at it.

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The Basic Kafka. (1979). N.Y.: Washington Square Press ( p. 239)*His aphorism were carefully written out and numbered by Kafka

himself on separate pieces of paper.