Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
CARSON MCCULLERSIt was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. 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 memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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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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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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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