Songs are as sad as the listener.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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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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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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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.
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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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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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