As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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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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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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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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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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Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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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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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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