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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
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
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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Beautiful Cleaning Feeling Help Low Morning Myself Shadow Sun
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?
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Lost Memories Morning Shadow Yourself
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Bad Each Other Lying Yourself
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

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