Franz Kafka Quote

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

82, a slight variant of this was later published in Parables and Paradoxes (1946): Why do we lament over the fall of man? We were not driven out of Paradise because of it, but because of the Tree of Life, that we might not eat of it. - Aphorisms (1918)