We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ou — Franz Kafka
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ou — Franz Kafka
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ou — Franz Kafka
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ou — Franz Kafka
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ou — Franz Kafka
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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.

— Franz Kafka
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