We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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