There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhy 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 was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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