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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
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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Bury Memories Opinion Ourselves Past Remain Side
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Animal Eat Factory Farm Land Talk

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