Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe 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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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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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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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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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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