I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe 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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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 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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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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