AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?


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The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is noth...
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be...
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The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
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SADNESS OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness...
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
Everything moved me. A do...
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I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only...
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Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive f...
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convinc...
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I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is someth...
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surpris...
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This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more th...
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newsp...
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Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “I...
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for for...
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I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li...
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We slept in the same bed.
There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessar...
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In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that ...
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It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
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Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
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Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why....
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Being reliable is something. Being good.
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You can't love anything more than something you miss.
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You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
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I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and mor...
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From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but ...
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Anyway.
I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are app...
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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on a...
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The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way ...
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It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
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I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side...
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My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shame...
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...and when is enough proof enough?
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E allora quanta sofferenza è accettabile? È questa la base di tutto, ed è questo che ognuno di no...
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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits ...
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Jacob wrestled with God for the blessing. He wrestled with Esau for the blessing. He wrestled with I...
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God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
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...This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against something, sometime...
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor...
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I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the ro...
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What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...
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Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was mad...
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I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...
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Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenl...
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Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...
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A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But m...
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At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It...
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The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a gi...
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This is the sixty-nine,” I told him,
presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my finger...
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Puoi levarti anche le calze?" Gli chiedeva lei. "E i calzoni?"
"E tu ti puoi levare i tuoi?" JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
THE PROBLEM OF GOOD: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY BAD PEOPLE
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I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will
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He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
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Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, s...
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I have been waiting for you for so long.”
I pointed to the car. “We are searching for Trach...
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