One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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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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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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What does it remember like?
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