Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
CARSON MCCULLERSComing down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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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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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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