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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Missing Myself Sorry Wonder
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Bad Each Other Lying Yourself
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Art Drive Love Myself Politics Purpose
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Hands Myself Side Thinking
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Enemy Myself Ordinary Thinking Way
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself

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