I never confused what I had with what I was.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERJust to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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