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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

Carson McCullers

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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Country Death Game Great People Sleeve Trick
As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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As Homesick Known never Often Place
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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Attitude Fear Frustration Negative Primarily Project Question Recur Source Unanswered
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Being Curt Deep Intolerable Love Many Secret State Truth
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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Being Card Declare Evening Human Library Manage Over Pass Suffer Table Thing
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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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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Children Consciousness Little Must Self Truth
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Alone Meant Understand Without
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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Argument Existence Left Life Little Personal Vicariously
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Loneliness Mar Need Way
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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After Come Hour Illumination Keep Phenomena Ready Search Soul Source Yet
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.
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Affirmation Cast Communication Contentment Courage Fear Love Motivate Response Security Sense Togetherness Wider
We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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