"After the first establishment of identity there comes……" — Carson McCullers

"After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us."

— Carson McCullers

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