Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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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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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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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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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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