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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Family Food Herself Offering Terror Tree
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
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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Existence heavy Myself Time Universe
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
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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Beginning Fall In Love Herself Ordinary Time
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Better Country Home Invention Live World
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
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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Book Design Fascination Myself Poem Yourself
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Children Choice Decision Different Moments Place Present Reality Wife
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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