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

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. – Franz Kafka

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Nature
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. – Franz Kafka

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Truth
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. – Franz Kafka

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Marriage
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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Books

If you have never said “Excuse me” to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. – Sherri Chasin Calvo

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Books

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Books

The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. – Rita Mae Brown

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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. – Leigh Hunt

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

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