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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

— Franz Kafka The Complete Stories (1971)

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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)

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)

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