Franz Kafka

only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

You've not behaved towards us the way we deserve after being so good to you, you forget that we, whatever we are, we're still free men and you're not, and that's quite an advantage.

Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?

There is a view according to which fear of marriage sometimes has its source in a fear that one’s children would some day pay one back for the sins one has committed against one’s own parents

why am I under arrest?" he then asked. "That's something we're not allowed to tell you

as much more important to him to get a clear understanding of his posi

maybe they were tradesmen from the corner of the street, they looked like they might be

We don't answer questions like that." "You will have to answer them,"

wer them," said K. "Here are my identification papers, now show me yours and I certainly want to see the arrest warrant."

And what do you want us to do about it?" replied the big policeman, loudly.