The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
CARSON MCCULLERSYou going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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