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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
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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Bury Memories Opinion Ourselves Past Remain Side
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
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
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
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Appreciation Division Genius Infinte Sadness Separate
Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Art Drive Love Myself Politics Purpose
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

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