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  1. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    I hope it is nothing serious. On the other hand, I must also say that we business people, luckily or unluckily, however one looks at it, very often simply have to overcome a slight indisposition for business reasons.
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  2. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    Now, quite apart from the fact that the doors were locked, should he really call out for help? In spite of all his distress, he was unable to suppress a smile at this idea.
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  3. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!
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  4. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could never think of anything through to a reasonable conclusion."
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  5. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    Why was Gregor the only one condemned to work in a firm where, at the slightest lapse, someone immediately attracted the greatest suspicion?
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  6. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    He remembered his family with deep feelings of love.
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  7. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    He had indeed been so close to forgetting that only the voice of the mother, so long unheard, brought him to his senses."
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  8. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?
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  9. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    We can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it.
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  10. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    The main thing holding the family back from a change in living quarters was far more their complete hopelessness and the idea that they had been struck by a misfortune like no one else in their entire circle of relatives and acquaintances.
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  11. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    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 all the doors during the night even at home.
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  12. Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis

    It seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless however nice they might be.
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