How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERSThe lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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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 curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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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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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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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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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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