Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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