It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFood serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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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’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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 does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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