The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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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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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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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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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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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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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 people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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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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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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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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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