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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Heart Meaning Myself People Pieces Word
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
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
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Blood Bruise Cry Feeling Life Myself Worst
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
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
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

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