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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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