I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound … - Franz Kafka

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.

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Alternative Names: František Kafka • Kafka

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Franz Kafka

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