I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSilently 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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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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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There were 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 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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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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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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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