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 everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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Bir elmanın birbirinden farklı görünümleri olabilir: Masanın üstündeki elmayı bir an olsun görebilmek için boynunu uzatan çocuğun görüşü ve bir de, elmayı alıp yanındaki arkadaşına rahatça veren evin efendisinin görüşü.

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He slid back again into his earlier position. "This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic. A man must have his sleep. Other travelling salesmen live like harem women. For instance, when I come back to the inn during the course of the morning to write up the necessary orders, these gentlemen are just sitting down to breakfast. If I were to try that with my boss, I'd be thrown out on the spot. Still, who knows whether that mightn't be really good for me? If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I'd have quit ages ago. I would've gone to the boss and told him just what I think from the bottom of my heart. He would've fallen right off his desk! How weird it is to sit up at that desk and talk down to the employee from way up there. The boss has trouble hearing, so the employee has to step up quite close to him. Anyway, I haven't completely given up that hope yet. Once I've got together the money to pay off my parents' debt to him—that should take another five or six years—I'll do it for sure. Then I'll make the big break. In any case, right now I have to get up. My train leaves at five o'clock

Franz Kafka


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Beni engelleyenin olgular olduğu pek söylenemez, bir korku, aşılabilmesi olanaksız bir korku var: mutlu olmaktan korkmak, daha yüce bir amaç için kendine acı verme tutkusu ve buyruğu.

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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

Franz Kafka

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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…

Franz Kafka


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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Franz Kafka

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Не е честно да се присмиваме на героя, който лежи смъртно ранен на сцената и пее ария. Ние години наред лежим на земята и пеем.

Franz Kafka


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One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

Franz Kafka


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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

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