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What an obstacle had suddenly arisen to block K.'s career!

— Franz Kafka The Trial (1920)

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.

The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)

If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.

The Complete Stories (1971)

Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.

In conversation with Max Brod (1920)

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

The Trial (1920)

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960)

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