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“Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?”
“Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.”
“You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.”
“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”
“Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.”
“But Im not guilty, said K. theres been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? Were all human beings here, one like the other. That is true said the priest but that is how the ...”
“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...”
“In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about...”
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of ...”
“Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agreed with him, at least K. thought that was what he saw from the corner of his eye. But it was jus...”
“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.”
