Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. Jacob's Room
Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me. The Trial
“Winning people is an end, self-defense is just a means.” Samarkand
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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