iamabadperson: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.If the book we are reading doesn’t wakes us up with blow on the head,what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster,that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”-Franz Kafka

iamabadperson:

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.If the book we are reading doesn’t wakes us up with blow on the head,what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster,that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”-Franz Kafka

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