There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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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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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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They are the we of me.
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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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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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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 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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