And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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 is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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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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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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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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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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