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"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
Letter to Oskar Pollak (27 January 1904)
~Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924)
#books #literature
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