"If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

-- Franz Kafka

#Reading Quotes #Ice Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

Source : Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.52, New Directions Publishing
“Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.”
“I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.”
“Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.”
“I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.”
“You want to do all of these preventative things to make sure you always look as young as possible, you don't want to look your age. Looking young and attractive matters, even more than the type of person you are, even more than the actions you commit.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.”
“I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.”

Source : Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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