Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAs long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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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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.
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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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