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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
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- Carson McCullers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Carson McCullers: documented activity in 1936. Wikidata Q230591, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230591 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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