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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Animal Cat Dog Farm Illegal Practice Treat Way
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Break Fingers Hands Herself Silence
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Children Deep Family Father Lying Myself Parents Promise
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Bone Hear Live Myself Time Weight
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
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
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
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
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
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
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Alive Feeling Hands Heart Touch Yourself

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.

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