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81 " However beautiful it looked, it was quite inadequate to illuminate the altarpieces which mostly hung in the gloom of the side chapels; it only made the darkness more intense. "
― Franz Kafka , The Trial
82 " you’ve undergone a total metamorphosis "
83 " He was always inclined to take life as lightly as he could, to cross bridges when he came to them, pay no heed for the future, even when everything seemed under threat. But here that did not seem the right thing to do. "
84 " Pensó cómo en otros tiempos había pronunciado su nombre con entera libertad, pero ahora suponía una carga para él, "
85 " «Ahora no le puedo hacer sombra—se dijo K—, pero cuando logre arreglar mis dificultades personales, él será el primero en enterarse y además con amargura». "
86 " los libros son códigos y es propio de este tipo de justicia que uno sea condenado no sólo inocente, sino también ignorante. "
87 " he gave way to a pleasant lassitude "
88 " On the other hand, there are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you’ve achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy. "
89 " You belong to the people I have to combat, and you’re very comfortable among them, you’re even in love with the student, or if you don’t love him you do at least prefer him to your husband. "
90 " K.’s uncle, who had already been made very angry by the long wait, turned abruptly round and retorted, “Ill? You say he’s ill?” and strode towards the gentleman in a way that seemed almost threatening, as if he were the illness himself. "
91 " First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force. "
92 " Lo que no podía hacer era quedarse a medio camino, eso era lo más absurdo y no solo en el mundo de los negocios, sino en todos los ámbitos "
93 " Ihre Sicherheit ist nur durch ihre Dummheit möglich. "
94 " You see, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law, and at the same time claims he’s innocent. "
95 " The moon shone down on everything with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses. "
96 " The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go. "
97 " An elderly merchant, a man with a long beard, was pleading with a young girl for a favourable report! Whatever Block's ulterior motive might be, nothing could justify his behaviour in the eyes of a fellow human being.K. did not understand how the advocate could have imagined that this spectacle would win him over. If K. had not dismissed him already, this performance would have made him do so; it almost degraded the onlooker. So this was the effect of the advocate's method, to which K. had fortunately not been exposed for too long: the client finally forgot the whole world and could only drag himself along this illusory path to the end of his trial. He was no longer a client; he was the advocate's dog. "
98 " Why do you have to go to the cathedral?' said Leni. K. tried to explain briefly, but he had hardly begun when Leni suddenly said: 'They are hounding you.' K., who could not bear anyone feeling sorry for him unexpectedly or gratuitously, broke off abruptly with just two words; but as he hung up the receiver he said, half to himself and half to the distant woman who could no longer hear him: 'Yes, they are hounding me. "
99 " Alles, was du liebst, geht sehr wahrscheinlich verloren, aber am Ende wird die Liebe auf andere Weise zurückkehren. "
100 " Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you. Now I’ll go and close it’.” “So "