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.

Franz Kafka
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More Quotes By Franz Kafka
  1. Love is a drama of contradictions.

  2. May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

  3. Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

  4. The meaning of life is that it stops.

  5. L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

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