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Jonathan Safran Foer

Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
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
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
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 wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Better Country Home Invention Live World
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
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
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Change Live Ourselves Respond
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Imagination Love Time Togetherness Touch

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