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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

I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Bad Character Goodness Myself Person Unknown
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
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
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 of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Bury Memories Opinion Ourselves Past Remain Side
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
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
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
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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Death Destroy Himself Live Note
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears

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

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