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“Gregor’s serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.”

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Book:The Metamorphosis
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“Rather like "Orwellian", the term "Kafkaesque" has come to be used, often enough by those who have not read a word of Kafka, to describe what are perceived as typically or even uniquely modern traumas: existential alienation, isolation and insecurity, the labyrinth of state bureaucracy, the corrupt or whimsical abuse of totalitarian power, the impenetrable tangle of legal systems, the knock on the door in the middle of the night….”

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Book:The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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“Era ahora demasiado libre, podía esperar en el lugar prohibido tanto como quisiera, había conquistado esa libertad como nadie hubiera sabido hacerlo, y nadie tenía derecho a tocarle, ni a expulsarle, incluso incomodarle, pero —y esta convicción era por lo menos tan fuerte como la otra— nada había tampoco más falto de sentido ni más desesperante que dicha libertad, dicha espera y dicha intangibilidad.”

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Book:The castle
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“Me parece que los dos nos hemos esforzado demasiado —demasiado bruscamente, demasiado puerilmente, y con demasiada experiencia— en obtener algo que no puede ser conquistado sino con, por ejemplo, la calma [...], suavamente, imperceptiblemente. Nosotros hemos empleado el llanto, las uñas, las sacudidas, como un niño que hace jirones el mantel y no logra más que echar por tierra todos los esplendores de la mesa, haciéndosele inaccessibles para siempre.”

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Book:The castle
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