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“ "Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“What an obstacle had suddenly arisen to block K.'s career! And this was the moment when he was supposed to work for the bank? He looked down at his desk. This the time to interview clients and negotiate with them? While his case was unfolding itself, while up in the attics the Court officials were poring over the charge papers, was he to devote his attention to the affairs of the bank? It looked like a kind of torture sanctioned by the Court, arising from his case and concomitant with it.”
The Trial • Franz Kafka““A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness — / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
A Woman of No Importance • Oscar Wilde