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"It Will Be Hard To Rouse Me, And Yet I Am Restless."
"It will be hard to rouse me, and yet I am restless."
Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated August 30th 1912, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Joseph Kresh)
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