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  1. Franz Kafka _ In the Penal Colony

    It's always questionable to intervene decisively in strange circumstances."
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  2. Franz Kafka _ In the Penal Colony

    Cascar una nuez no es realmente un arte, y en consecuencia nadie se atrevería a congregar un auditorio para entretenerle cascando nueces. Pero si lo hace y logra su propósito, entonces ya no se trata meramente de cascar nueces. O tal vez se trate meramente de cascar nueces, pero entonces descubrimos que nos hemos despreocupado totalmente de dicho arte porque lo dominábamos demasiado, y este nuevo cascador de nueces nos muestra por primera vez la esencia real del arte, al punto de que podría convenirle, para un mayor efecto, ser un poco menos hábil en cascar nueces que la mayoría de nosotros.
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  3. Franz Kafka _ In the Penal Colony

    Guilt is never to be doubted.
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  4. Franz Kafka _ In the Penal Colony

    Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: "Does he know his sentence?" "No," said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: "He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him?" "No," said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: "There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.
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  5. Franz Kafka _ In the Penal Colony

    You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.
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