“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― In a Free State
― In a Free State
“It has come as a great revelation to me,” I wrote her, “that abolition is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
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