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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.

Carson McCullers

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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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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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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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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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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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