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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.

Carson McCullers

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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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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 was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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Age Ask Cast Charitable Fear Go Haunt Honest Question Together
Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Argument Existence Left Life Little Personal Vicariously
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Always Essential Keen Less Loneliness Made People Create
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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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All Around Can Do Tell Truth
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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