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Books Quotes by Franz Kafka
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
- If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that…
- I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then…
- Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
- We need the books that affect us like a disaster
- Books are a narcotic.
- I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
- 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…
- I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not…
- 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…
- ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we…
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