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I was more alone than if I had been alone. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life. View quote
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. View quote
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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle. View quote
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The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present. View quote
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I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. View quote
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Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it. View quote
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... only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.... View quote
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Grandfather informs me that is not possible. View quote
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. View quote
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Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? View quote
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... people with nothing to declare carry the most. View quote
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for. View quote
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter. View quote
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Let love write on you for awhile. View quote
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It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love? View quote
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I wasn't having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts. View quote
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If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten? View quote
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I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember. View quote
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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. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me. View quote
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. View quote
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