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Quotes › Authors › F › Franz Kafka › If the literature we are reading does not wake us,
  • If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

    Franz Kafka: If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
    Franz Kafka
    1889
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