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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.

— Franz Kafka The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)

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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)

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

The Trial (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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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