We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe 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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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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