The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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They are the we of me.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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