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Everyone knew: now justice is being done.
alle wussten: Jetzt geschieht Gerechtigkeit.

— The Officer (dialogue) · 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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