The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
CARSON MCCULLERSImagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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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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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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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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