"Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Nothing is so strange when one is in love ... as the complete indifference of other people. Mrs. Dalloway

“I wanted to excel in your eyes, show my strength of will, wait before writing you, first finish a document, but the room is empty, no one is minding me – it’s as if someone said: leave him alone, can’t you see how engrossed he is in his own affairs, it’s as if he had a fist in his mouth. So I only wrote half a page and am once again with you, lying on this letter like I lay next to you back then in the forest.” (16 July 1920) Letters To Milena

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”   1984