Abel

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“Everyone has his cross to bear.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: clarity, english-language, insincerity, obscurantism

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“I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial