I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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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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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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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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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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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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