Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
CARSON MCCULLERSDeath is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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