Classic Novels
“Whenever the conversation turned to the necessity of earning money, Gregor would let go of the door, and throw himself on to the cool leather sofa beside it, because he was burning with sorrow and shame.”
— The Metamorphosis
(Franz Kafka, 1915)
“My basis for deciding is this: guilt is always beyond doubt.”
— In The Penal Colony
(Franz Kafka, 1919)
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
— Jane Eyre
(Charlotte Brontë, 1847)
“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!…”
— White Nights
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1848)
