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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Ability Hold On Important Myself Sorry
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 hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Children Choice Decision Different Moments Place Present Reality Wife
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
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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Children Myself Need Past
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
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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Person Understand Whisper Yourself
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Absence Hate Himself Love Presence
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself

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