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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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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 closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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