“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.”
- Kafka (via asettingsun)

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    yes totally. i agree. but books affect me too much.
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    The exact quote that has been on my mind all this week. Where’s a good book when you need one?
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