But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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But 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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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