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

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  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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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Everyone has the right to say what he thinks, but there is no law that forces anyone to listen.

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  Every usurer and scoundrel could buy himself, for a few pennies, the title of ‘great patriot of the people’.

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  There were many liberal laws, and no freedom at all.

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