I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMemory 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.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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