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

— Franz Kafka

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„You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.“
— Franz Kafka
„Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.“
— Franz Kafka
„Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression of everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true.Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most — you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love.“
— Franz Kafka
„From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.“
— Henri Matisse
„I hate myself for loving you.“
— Bob Dylan
„The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.“
— W. H. Auden
„Defining relationships over here? I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.“
— Cassandra Clare
„If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson