But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe 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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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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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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