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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

Carson McCullers

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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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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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