Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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She 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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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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