Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
CARSON MCCULLERSAnd in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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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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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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This music was her-the real plain her…This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard.
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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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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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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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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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