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I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the fut...more

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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ash...more

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The meaning of life is that it ends

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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Kill me, or you are a murderer.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for...more

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer asha...more

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At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And ...more

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All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there’s a little ange...more

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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

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But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

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And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and f...more

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But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the othe...more