It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMost of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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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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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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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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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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