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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Happiness Myself Thinking Time
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Hard Live Person Place Travel
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
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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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Existence heavy Myself Time Universe
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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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
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
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
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
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

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