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“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens“"Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“Everyone had only one true vocation: to find himself. Let him wind up as a poet or a madman, as a prophet or a criminal—that wasn’t his business; in the long run, it was irrelevant. His business was to discover his own destiny, not just any destiny, and to live it totally and undividedly. Anything else was just a half-measure, an attempt to run away, an escape back to the ideal of the masses, an adaptation, fear of one’s own nature. Fearsome and sacred, the new image rose up before me; I had sensed it a hundred times, perhaps I had already enunciated it, but now I was experiencing it for the first time. I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone!”
Demian • Hermann Hesse““Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others."”
The Duel • Anton Chekhov“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
The Hobbit • J.R.R Tolkien