## Metadata - Author: [[Franz Kafka and Ian C. Johnston]] - Full Title: The Metamorphosis - Category: #books ## Highlights - One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. ([Location 20](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=20)) - His room, a proper room for a human being, ([Location 24](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=24)) - “Why don’t I keep sleeping for a little while longer and forget all this foolishness?” ([Location 29](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=29)) - temporary and constantly changing human interactions, which never come from the heart. ([Location 36](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=36)) - 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. ([Location 46](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=46)) - to sleep ([Location 51](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=51)) - The violent pain he felt revealed to him that the lower part of his body was at the moment probably the most sensitive. ([Location 89](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=89)) - At the same time, however, he did not forget to keep reminding himself periodically of the fact that calm—indeed the calmest—reflection might be much better than confused decisions. ([Location 98](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=98)) - Gregor ([Location 205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07W9LYXD9&location=205)) - Tags: [[orange]]