I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIf the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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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?
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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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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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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What does it remember like?
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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