#excerpts (I will never be consistent, so I won't put a number in front)

"No," said the priest, "but I fear it will end badly. You are considered guilty. Perhaps your trial won't even go beyond a lower court. At least for the moment, your guilt is taken for granted."
"But I am not guilty," K. said. "It's a mistake. And then, in general, how can a man be guilty? And here we are all men, just the same."
"That's true," said the priest, "but that is precisely how the guilty speak."

Franz Kafka, The Trial