I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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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?
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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