Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. Dubliners
Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. The Trial
“What scholars came, what did they find! Like candles they shed light on the world. Which one broke through this darkness? They told a tale and fell asleep.” Samarkand
In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always. Fragment
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