Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 15, 1891 - March 10, 1940
Birthday: May 15
Death: March 10
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.
source: Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.112, Penguin
topic: Knives, Knowing, Long, Finnish, Knowing Each Other
