Everything 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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything 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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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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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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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What does it remember like?
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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