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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Depend Moments Oneself
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste 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
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Missing Myself Sorry Wonder
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
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
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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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Break Up Bury Himself Leaving Live Myself Try Writing
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
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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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

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