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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Imagination Thinking Yourself
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
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
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Imposter Myself Recognition Share Smile Wrong
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
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
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

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