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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
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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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology Time
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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Creature Live Love Memories Reminder Story World
There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste Yourself
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Children Food Growth Ourselves People Strange Upset
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.

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