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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Carson McCullers

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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Been Before Each never Other Thing Walk
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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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