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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
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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Imagination Love Time Togetherness Touch
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Bad Myself Relationship Shallow Thinking Time
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Laughter Myself Room Small
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
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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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Depend Moments Oneself
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Enemy Myself Ordinary Thinking Way
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word

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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