Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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