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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
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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 do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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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.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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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’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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