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This was not torture of the kind the officer had wanted. This was plain murder.
das war ja keine Folter, wie sie der Offizier erreichen wollte, das war unmittelbarer Mord.

— Narration, from the traveler's point of view · Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony (1919); English translation by The Paris Atlas

Believe and wait!
Glaubet und wartet!

— The inscription on the old commandant's gravestone · Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony (1919); English translation by The Paris Atlas

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