It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPart 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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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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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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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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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