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.
CARSON MCCULLERSBecause 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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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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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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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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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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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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 closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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