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01c. 1977 AD

So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.

Jonathan Safran Foer / quote

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02c. 1977 AD

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

Jonathan Safran Foer / quote

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03c. 1977 AD

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

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04c. 1977 AD

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

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05c. 1977 AD

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...

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06c. 1977 AD

And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Yor great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love

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07c. 1977 AD

All that mattered was him looking at me

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08c. 1977 AD

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

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09c. 1977 AD

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

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10c. 1977 AD

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

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11c. 1977 AD

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!

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12c. 1977 AD

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.Can we tell a new story?

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13c. 1977 AD

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

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14c. 1977 AD

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

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15c. 1977 AD

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

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16c. 1977 AD

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

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17c. 1977 AD

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

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