Only humans can cry tears.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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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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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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