There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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 run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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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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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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