My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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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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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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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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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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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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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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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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