There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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 took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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