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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Angry Forget Hands Herself Laughter Sadness
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
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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Bruise Earn Feeling Hate Life Yourself
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Absence Hate Himself Love Presence
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Distance Fill Memories Reach Time Walk Yourself
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Different Myself Silence World

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

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