It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI 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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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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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What does it remember like?
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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