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  1. Franz Kafka _ Letters to Friends, Family,

    That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.
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  2. Franz Kafka _ Letters to Friends, Family,

    The amount of quiet I need does not exist in the world, from which it follows that no one ought to need so much quiet.
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  3. Franz Kafka _ Letters to Friends, Family,

    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.
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  4. Franz Kafka _ Letters to Friends, Family,

    During last night's insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life…
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  5. Franz Kafka _ Letters to Friends, Family,

    I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
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