“Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free.”
Franz Kafka book The Trial
Source: The Trial (1920), Ch. 8
“Only indifference is free. What is distinctive is never free, it is stamped with its own seal, conditioned and chained.”
As quoted in Sculpting in Time (1996), by Andrei Tarkovsky, p. 56
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