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

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Bad Each Other Lying Yourself
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Beginning Deserve Detail Friendship Leaving Myself Relationship Talk Yourself
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Laughter Myself Room Small
Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
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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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
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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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World

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