You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.
Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
One learns when one has to; one learns when one needs a way out; one learns at all costs. One stands over oneself with a whip; one flays oneself at the slightest opposition.
Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.
Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet.
Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parablesyou yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.Another said: I bet that is also a...
He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
فهل يوجد يا ميلينا، ثمة مكان في هذه الدنيا يسعه أن يطيق معي صبرًا
Kafkaesque.
The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your lov...
The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.
That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.
Mientras estaba tendido allí, a un paso de mí yacía un escarabajo, patas arriba, desesperado. No podía enderezarse, me habría gustado ayudarlo, era tan fácil hacerlo, bastaba un paso y un empujoncito...
It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing hi...
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
