The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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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 whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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