The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
CARSON MCCULLERSPeople, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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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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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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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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