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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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I 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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