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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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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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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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