| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31947 |
| QUOTATION: | A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Franz Kafka (18831924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. Letter to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904. Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, trans. by Richard and Clara Winston, New York, Schocken Books (1977). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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