There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness.
¶ (Attributed)
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Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Austrian writer
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
¶ (Attributed)
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return.
¶ (Attributed)
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
¶ Conversations with Kafka (by Gustav Janouch)
(tr. Goronwy Rees, 1953)
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