# Quote — Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

> Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

- Author: [Franz Kafka](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka.md)
- Book: [The Metamorphosis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-metamorphosis.md)
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## More from this book

> As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.

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> "Hey, there’s something falling down in there," said the chief clerk. Gregor tried to suppose to himself that what had happened to him might some day also happen to the chief clerk. There was no denying that anything was possible.

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> How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.

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