She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Part 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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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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