The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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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 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 homesick most for the places we have never known.
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