I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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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 lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Next to music beer was best.
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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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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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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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