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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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 had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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