When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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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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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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