justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe are homesick most for the places we have never known.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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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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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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They are the we of me.
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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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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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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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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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