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Robert Walser
“Mysteries make one dream of unendurable bewitchments, they have the fragrance of something quite, quite unspeakably beautiful.”
Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

Hermann Hesse
“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.”
Hermann Hesse, Crisis

Joris-Karl Huysmans
“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

Julian
“Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books.”
Julian the Apostate

Franz Kafka
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need 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 within us. That is my belief.”
Franz Kafka

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