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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

Carson McCullers

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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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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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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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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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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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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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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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Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
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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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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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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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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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