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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

Carson McCullers

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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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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Alone Meant Understand Without
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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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