a little fable

“Alas, said the mouse, the world is growing smaller every day.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. 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 to break the frozen seas inside us.” – Franz Kafka

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