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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need 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 within us. That is my belief.”

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Franz Kafka

I have also read this quote to read “a journal is an axe for the frozen sea within us”. I like both.

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    If the writing doesn’t move me in anyway, it’s a waste of pulp. Really. If you could make me cry then you deserve to be...
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    This is how I feel about music basically.
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    I have also read this quote to read “a journal is an axe for the frozen sea within us”. I like both.
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    The same applies (or should) to music, movies, and most art. If it’s not affecting you deeply, you’re probably wasting...
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