… a man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables, you yourself would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.

Another said: I bet that is also a parable.

The first said: You have won.

The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.

The first said: No, in reality; in parable you have lost.

FRANZ KAFKA

From “Parables and Paradoxes” by

Franz Kafka. Reprinted by permission

of Schocken Books, Inc.