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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, which ends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, October 20, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).

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