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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Feeling Important Love Romance Talk Togetherness
Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Absence Hate Himself Love Presence
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Creature Live Love Memories Reminder Story World
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Animal Irony Time
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past

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