They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence. (Franz Kafka)

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Franz Kafka

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