One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as… - Franz Kafka

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One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.

Franz Kafka

Letters to Felice · December 6, 2016 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Alternative Names: František Kafka • Kafka

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