It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
CARSON MCCULLERSSometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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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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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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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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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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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 most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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They are the we of me.
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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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To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
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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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Next to music beer was best.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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