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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.

Carson McCullers

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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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Been Just Long Time Trouble
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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