No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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What does it remember like?
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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