We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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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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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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