How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERSJesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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