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I never confused what I had with what I was.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Angry Forget Hands Herself Laughter Sadness
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
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Word Yourself
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
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
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Empty Feeling Myself Stone
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself

I never confused what I had with what I was.

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