I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays? - Jonathan Safran Foer

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He had a wall of masks from every country he‘d been to, like Armenia and Chile and Ethiopia. It‘s not a horrible world, he told me, but it‘s filled with a lot of horrible people.

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The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

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life emptiness

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