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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!

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Imagination Myself Ocean Yourself
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
She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Break Fingers Hands Herself Silence
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Difference Emotion Feeling Shame Shy Yourself

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