In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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