Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenceless. When sleep does not come, it is because I have been too defenceless, too open, too naked to the world.
— Franz Kafka Modern

The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

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Diaries

Date / Period

1910

Category

Controversial

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/568858-sleep-is-the-most-innocent-creature-and-…

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