We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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