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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.

Carson McCullers

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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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