There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhat 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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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They are the we of me.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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