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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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There were 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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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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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