How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense,
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
He advertido, de pronto, que en realidad no recuerdo su rostro en detalle. Sólo creo ver aún su figura, su vestido, mientras usted se alejaba entre las mesas del café.
For example, my choice of career. You generously and patiently gave me complete freedom. Though this followed the habits, or at least the values, of the Jewish middle class concerning their sons. An...
For I underestimate myself, and that itself means an overestimation of others
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everythi...
Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.
Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the t...
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his hea...
And there shouldn’t be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life.
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the l...
And here was your mysterious innocence and invulnerability: you abused others without regret, and you condemned abuse, and said it was forbidden. You backed your derision with threats, for example, ‘...
And I could never understand why you were insensitive to the sorrow and shame you inflicted on me with your words and judgements – it was as if you didn’t sense your own power. And I certainly made y...
Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
After all, one does not laugh at senator's nephew at the first opportunity that presents itself.
48 Belief in progress doesn’t mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief.
It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.
The books were oldand well worn, the cover of one of them had nearly broken through in itsmiddle, and it was held together with a few threads. Everything is sodirty here, said K., shaking his head, an...
Milena - what a rich heavy name, almost too full to be lifted, and in the beginning I didn't like it much, it seemed to me a Greek or Roman gone astray in Bohemia, violated by Czech, cheated of its ac...