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I never confused what I had with what I was.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Change Live Ourselves Respond
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
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 laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past
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
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
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Breathe Father Process Tree Understand Young
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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Beginning Fall In Love Herself Ordinary Time
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself

I never confused what I had with what I was.

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