Only humans can cry tears.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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