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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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Illumination Light Myself Past Side
The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Leave Meaning Myself River Start Thinking Tree
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Car Design Faith Writing
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Lost Memories Morning Shadow Yourself
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Different Myself Silence World
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
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
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself

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