Friday, March 6, 2009

Kafka on Books

in 1904, Franz Kafka wrote in a letter to his friend Oscar Pollack :


" The books we need are those that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest from all human habitation - a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."

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