I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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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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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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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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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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