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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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 don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong 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 have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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Break Up Bury Himself Leaving Live Myself Try Writing
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Depend Moments Oneself
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Comfortable Experience Organization Scare Word
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
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Animal Eat Factory Farm Land Talk
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

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?

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