I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSAnd the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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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.
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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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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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