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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.

Carson McCullers

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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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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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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