There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
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.
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.