But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSAll people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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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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