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101 " It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. "
― Franz Kafka , The Trial
102 " Sobre todo no detenerse a mitad de camino, eso era lo más insensato, no sólo en los negocios sino siempre y en todas partes. "
103 " I don’t even consider them guilty; it’s the organization that’s guilty, it’s the high officials who are guilty. "
104 " Anything but stop halfway, "
105 " The only thing I can do now is preserve my logical understanding to the end. I always wanted to grab at life, and not with the best of intentions either. That was not right; and am I to show now that not even these proceedings lasting a whole year could teach me anything? Am I to depart as an utterly stupid man? Are they going to say when I have gone that I wanted to end the case at the beginning and that now, at the end, I want it to begin again? I don't want people to say that. I'm thankful they've given me these stupid inarticulate companions for this journey and that they've left it to me to say what has to be said to myself. "
106 " it’s often better to be in chains than to be free. "
107 " Βγήκε κάποτε ένα κλουβί και έψαχνε για πουλιά. "
108 " Your indifference is driving me crazy. "
109 " If my heart can’t take it, it will at least offer a worthy occasion for it to fail entirely. "
110 " he had acted with no thought at all for what might follow and had been made to suffer for it. "
111 " Above all, he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere "
112 " he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent. "
113 " Church staff creep silently as part of their job, you don’t notice them. "
114 " Z kłamstwa robi się istotę porządku świata. "
115 " do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position. They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. "
116 " he spent many an hour in only the most superficial appearance of actual work, "
117 " Committing suicide would be so irrational that even had he wished to, the irrationality of the act would have prevented him. "
118 " They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves. "
119 " You don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. "
120 " when you’ve been in this world for thirty years and had to make your way on your own, as has been my lot, you get hardened to surprises and don’t take them too seriously. "