Carolina QuotesAnd Christ himself, who preached the life of love, was yet as lonely as any man that ever lived. Yet I could not say that he was mistaken because he preached the life of love and fellowship, and lived and died in loneliness; nor would I dare assert his way was wrong because a billion men have since professed his way and never followed it.
Thomas Wolfe Carolinian
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- The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)
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- 1941
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