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Once he [Kafka] went to the Berlin aquarium … Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks, "Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you any more." It was the time that he turned strict vegetarian.

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Among my notes I find something else that Kafka said about vegetarianism. He compared vegetarians with the early Christians, persecuted everywhere, everywhere laughed at, and frequenting dirty haunts. "What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people."

Max Brod

Max Brod

Max Brod

Born: May 27, 1884

Died: December 20, 1968 (aged 84)

Bio: Max Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jew, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka.

Known for:

Paganism, Christianity, Judaism
Tycho Brahe's Path to God
The Redemption Of Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott: Roman (1915)
Heinrich Heine (1934)

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