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He was a tool of the boss, wit...

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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His biggest misgiving came fro...

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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If they were shocked, then Gre...

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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The door could not be heard sl...

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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But Gregor understood easily t...

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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Was he an animal, that music c...

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.

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He thought back on his family ...

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

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What I write is different from...

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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Beyond a certain point there i...

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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The founder brought the laws f...

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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Anyone who believes cannot exp...

Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

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From the true antagonist illim...

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

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For everything outside the phe...

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

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Anyone who renounces the world...

Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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Our art is a way of being dazz...

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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The delights of this life are ...

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

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The cruelty of death lies in t...

The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

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In a certain sense you deny th...

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

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Knowledge we have. Anyone who ...

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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Adam's first domestic pet afte...

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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