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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Understand Wrong Yourself
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Existence heavy Myself Time Universe
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
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
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
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
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Imagination Love Time Togetherness Touch
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
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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Hands Myself Side Thinking
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Appreciation Division Genius Infinte Sadness Separate
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Empty Exact Forest Ocean Oneself Type
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself

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