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Quote by Franz Kafka
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

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The relationship to ones fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for ones striving. – Franz Kafka

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relationship
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Franz Kafka
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. – Franz Kafka

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Rejection
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A blessed companion is a book, — a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,… a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own. – Douglas Jerrold

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There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. – Judah Ibn Tibbon

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A book that is shut is but a block. – Thomas Fuller

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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. – Rodney Dangerfield

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