Yes, we are both right, and so that we do not become irrefutably aware of it, we would rather each go home alone, would we not?
Franz Kafka
New English translation prepared for this collection from the German original.
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A quote by Franz Kafka
From the source
Contemplation (Betrachtung), “Die Abweisung” (The Rejection), page 69.
German text: Betrachtung, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1913 title page; printed November 1912.
The closing words of an imagined exchange between two people.
Original German
Ja, wir haben beide recht und, um uns dessen nicht unwiderleglich bewußt zu werden, wollen wir, nicht wahr, lieber jeder allein nach Hause gehn.