The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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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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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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