Gregor, open up, I'm pleading with you.' But Gregor had absolutely no intention of opening the door and complimented himself instead on the precaution he had adopted from his business trips of locking...
Gece gündüz, uykuda olsun, uyanık olsun, vücuduna saplanmış bir oku taşımak demek. Çekilir şey değil bu.
For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.
Evil has ways of surprising one. Suddenly it turns round and says: You have misunderstood me, and perhaps it really is so. Evil transforms itself into your own lips, lets itself be gnawed at by your t...
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...
Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida esté dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible, muy lejos. Sin embar...
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.
Don't you want to join us? I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. No, I don't, I said.
Don't look at him! he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way
Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
But I cannot find my way in this darkness, said K. Turn left to the wall, said the priest, then follow the wall without leaving it and you'll come to a door. The priest had already taken a step or two...
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, ‘...
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
Above all, he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere.
A piece like a segment has been cut out of the back of his head. The sun looks in and the whole world with it. It makes him nervous, it distracts him from his work, and moreover it irritates him that...
A man might find for a moment that he was unable to work, but that's exactly the right time to remember his past accomplishments and to consider that later on, when the obstacles has been removed, he'...
48 Belief in progress doesn’t mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief.
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...