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直译译出了卡夫卡的歇斯底里，泰比斯改后文句的表达效果，反而没有直译好了。卡夫卡想做一个逻辑学家，作为翻译者，我们应当尊重他的选择啊。

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.
• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.