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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?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Leave Meaning Myself River Start Thinking Tree
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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