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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.

Carson McCullers

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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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Argument Existence Left Life Little Personal Vicariously
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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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Beloved Come Country Different Lover
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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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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Flower Most Poverty Precious Resentment
People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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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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