People with nothing to declare carry the most.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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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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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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