From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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  A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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  Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

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  In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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  One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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  I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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  To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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