The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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