As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect. The Metamorphosis (1915)
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! The Metamorphosis (1915)
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. The Metamorphosis (1915)
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. The Metamorphosis (1915)
"Hey, there’s something falling down in there," said the chief clerk. Gregor tried to suppose to himself that what had happened to him might some day also happen to the chief clerk. There was no denying that anything was possible. The Metamorphosis (1915)