I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERSAfter 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 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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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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They are the we of me.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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