Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (1915)

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The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

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You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.

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"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.

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

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But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…

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Was he an animal, that music could capture him so completely? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the longed for, unknown, nourishment.

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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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