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Jonathan Safran Foer

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology Time
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
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Feeling Myself Night Nightmare Wake Up
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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Illumination Light Myself Past Side
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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Deep Myself Need Philosophy
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
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
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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Animal Civilization Dog Feeling Illegal Name Nation Prosperity Shame Treat
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

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