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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Ability Hold On Important Myself Sorry
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
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
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Animal Born Color Different Herself
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
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 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
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Beginning Deserve Detail Friendship Leaving Myself Relationship Talk Yourself
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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Illumination Light Myself Past Side

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

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