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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
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
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
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Animal Born Color Different Herself
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
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
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Happiness Myself Thinking Time
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
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Animal Irony Time
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
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 can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

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