How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERSResentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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 xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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