Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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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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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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