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

Other quotes by Franz Kafka

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka

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Knowledge
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. – Franz Kafka

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positive
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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. – Voltaire

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple

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Books

Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful book. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. – Robert Herrick

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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It is about five o’clock in an evening that the first hour of spring strikes — autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. – Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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