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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Bad Myself Relationship Shallow Thinking Time
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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Lonely Myself People Start Wonder
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
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
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Heart Meaning Myself People Pieces Word
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Imagination Love Time Togetherness Touch

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.

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