How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERSjustice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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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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