A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka

 

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.


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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -Franz Kafka
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. -Franz Kafka
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You are free, and that is why you are lost.

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