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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Feeling Myself Night Nightmare Wake Up
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Animal Cat Dog Farm Illegal Practice Treat Way
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need
There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Protect Sadness Yourself
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Word Yourself
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

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