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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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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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