When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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We spent our lives making livings.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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