# Quote — Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

> A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves 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.

- Author: [Franz Kafka](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka.md)
- Book: [The Complete Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-complete-stories.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-complete-stories/a-man-once

## More from this book

> All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

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> "You asking me the way?" "Yes," I said, "since I can't find it myself." "Give it up! Give it up!" said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.

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> "Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true."

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