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Famous Franz Kafka Quotes
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
Source: The Basic Kafka
Source: The Basic Kafka
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka
Source: The Basic Kafka
Source: Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”
“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
“We need the books that affect us like a disaster”
Source: The Basic Kafka