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.
CARSON MCCULLERSCan you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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 whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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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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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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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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