He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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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?
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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