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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. (Carson McCullers)
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. View quote
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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. View quote
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. View quote
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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. View quote
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. View quote
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. View quote
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. View quote
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. (Carson McCullers)
They are the we of me. View quote
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house. View quote
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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. View quote
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone. View quote
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick? View quote
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this. View quote
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful. View quote
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen. View quote
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Next to music, beer was best. View quote
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been anperson. All people belong to aexcept me. Not to belong to amakes you too lonesome. (Carson McCullers)
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. View quote
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing. View quote
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have. View quote
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You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real. View quote
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