The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut 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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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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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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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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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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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 wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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