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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,

Jonathan Safran Foer

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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Book Design Fascination Myself Poem Yourself
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
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Leaving Let Go Life People Yourself
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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Day Distance Fill Memories Reach Time Walk Yourself
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Feeling Myself Night Nightmare Wake Up
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Lost Memories Morning Shadow Yourself
Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Children Food Growth Ourselves People Strange Upset
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Change Live Ourselves Respond
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
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
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Admit Effort Goal Human Open Romance Temporary Time Volume
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Children Deep Family Father Lying Myself Parents Promise
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Blood Bruise Cry Feeling Life Myself Worst
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself

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