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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
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
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
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Bury Communication Hide Himself Hurt Myself Word
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
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Lost Memories Morning Shadow Yourself
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Better Country Home Invention Live 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
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain

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