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.

Franz Kafka
Profession: Novelist
Nationality: Austrian
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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.