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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

Carson McCullers

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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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 value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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Cloud Men Miserable Rock Should Tree Wonder
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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