"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 up with a 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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