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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

Carson McCullers

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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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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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 of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Alone Do Fatal Man Most Stand Thing
After 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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Next to music beer was best.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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