This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERDo 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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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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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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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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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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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