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Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Bury Memories Opinion Ourselves Past Remain Side
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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Different Help Myself Remember Time
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
But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Believe Complication Myself Simplicity
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology 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
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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Best Day Life Myself Thinking

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