When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

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Transformation Change Alienation from oneself Alienation

Author

Franz Kafka

Source

The Metamorphosis

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Opening lines

Language

German

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Verlag, 1915, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by Susan Bernofsky. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, ch. 1.

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Another quote from the 1910s

Truth is the first casualty in war.

Ethel Snowden

Women and War

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War and truth

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Ethel Snowden
Source
Women and War
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.

Another quote about Change

One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The only constant is change Change Rivers

Author

Heraclitus
Medium
Presocratic fragment Fragment
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
Greek
Time
5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B12.

Current Citation

Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, DK B12.

Another quote from 1915

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

T.S. Eliot

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Adventure Beginning of a journey

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.

Another quote originally in German

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

Paul Joseph Goebbels

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Nazi Germany

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Paul Joseph Goebbels
Medium
Personal journal
Language
German
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Goebbels, Joseph. Diary entry. 6 Aug. 1932.

Another quote of the following type Opening lines

When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

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Dante Alighieri
Source
Inferno The Divine Comedy
Medium
Poem
Genre
Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature
Statement Type
Opening lines
Language
Italian
Time
1321 1320s 14th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

Current Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.