I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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 have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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