I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe 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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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The 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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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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 could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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