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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Dictionary People Photograph Yourself
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
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
While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
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.
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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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Death Destroy Himself Live Note
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Protect Sadness Yourself

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