I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe 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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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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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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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They are the we of me.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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