It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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