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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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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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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Ability Hold On Important Myself Sorry
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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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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