Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before. The Trial
She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind. Dubliners
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." The Analects of Confucius
“[…] maybe there are no easy paths. Maybe there are just paths. […] we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad. Midnight Library
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