I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSA 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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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