The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
CARSON MCCULLERSOwing 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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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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They are the we of me.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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 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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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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