And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
CARSON MCCULLERSthe way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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 meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The 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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Next to music beer was best.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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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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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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