A scene from The Trial 1962
Josef K.

I don't pretend to be a martyr, no.

Hastler

Not even a victim of society?

Josef K.

I am a member of society.

Hastler

Do you think you can persuade the court that you're not responsible by reason of lunacy?

Josef K.

I think that's what the court wants me to believe. Yes, that's the conspiracy: to persuade us all that the whole world is crazy, formless, meaningless, absurd. That's the dirty game. So I've lost my case. What of it? You, you're losing too. It's all lost, lost. So what? Does that sentence the entire universe to lunacy?

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