“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.
“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
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“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
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“The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”
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“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”
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“There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.”
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“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
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Variant: The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
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“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”
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“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
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