‘Nothing is granted me, everything has to be earned, not only the present and the future but the past too – something after all which perhaps every human being has inherited, this too must be earned, it is perhaps the hardest task.’
KAFKA, Letters to Milena
‘Certain events would put me into a position in which I could not go on with the old language games any further. In which I was torn away from the sureness of the game.’
WITTGENSTEIN, On Certainty
‘Do you mean to say the story is finished?’ said Don Quixote.
‘As finished as my mother,’ said Sancho.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote