It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt 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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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.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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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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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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