Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThis is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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 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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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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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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