They are the we of me.
CARSON MCCULLERSShe was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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 the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand 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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