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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”
― Clarice Lispector

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.”
― Gershom Scholem

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature