Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
タグ: god, fear, devil

"Carson McCullers"の他の名言

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
タグ: like, design, mind, colors
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
タグ: understanding, someone-like-you, passing-by, missing-out, meeting, knowledge, knowing, friendship, empathy, connecting
Again, the terror, the acknowledgment of wasted years and death. Valentin, responsive and confident, still nestled in his arms. His cheek touched the soft cheek and felt the brush of the delicate eyelashes. With inner desperation he pressed the child close - as though an emotion as protean as his love could dominate the pulse of time.
タグ: time, love, death
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.
タグ: wisdom, understanding, rarity, knowledge, knowing, ignorance, epiphanies, enlightenment
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
タグ: truth
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