The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSDeath is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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