the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
CARSON MCCULLERSThis 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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The 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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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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