But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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