The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
CARSON MCCULLERSI live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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