"Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself."

-- Franz Kafka

#Love Is Quotes #Knives Quotes #Plunge Quotes

“I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking”
“Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.”

Source : Edward H. Rulloff's last words before he was hanged, May 18, 1871.
“I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.”
“A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.”
“When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge...”
“My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.”
“Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.”

Source : Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.438
“You've got to be tough to win.”

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