I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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They are the we of me.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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 way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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