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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.

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.

Approximate author period: c. 1903 AD · modern

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Franz Kafka
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Approximate author period: c. 1903 AD · modern
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