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By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

— Franz Kafka Misattributed to Kafka in Ambiguous Spaces (2008)

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Attributed to Kafka in Ambiguous Spaces (2008) by NaJa & deOstos (Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos), p. 7, and a couple other publications since, this is actually from Report to Greco (1965) by Nikos Kazantzakis, p. 434

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