But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all.
Carson McCullersAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 19, 1917
- Died: September 29, 1967
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