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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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Religions get lost as people do.

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

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But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

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Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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