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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

Carson McCullers

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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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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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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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