But it is my task – I was going to say my mission – to shatter the faith of the one, of the other, and of the third, the faith in affirmation, the faith in negation and the faith in abstention, and to do this out of faith in faith itself. It is my task to fight against all those who resign themselves… It ismy task to make all live in unquite and longing.

– Unamuno

The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation – a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us.

– Kafka