Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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