Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove 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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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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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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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 beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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 thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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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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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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