# Quote — Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

> Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

- Author: [Franz Kafka](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka.md)
- Book: [The Complete Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-complete-stories.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#The_Complete_Stories_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-complete-stories/ours-is-a-lost

## 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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