下面是英译者处理的。
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
我不懂德文,不知道原文是否如上述英文一样简洁、清晰,但我实在喜欢英文的卡夫卡,下面是我收藏的一部分句子。像“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. ”这美妙格言的旋律,我觉得汉语是译不出来的。
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Evil is whatever distracts.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.