I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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They are the we of me.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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