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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Deep Myself Need Philosophy
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Imagination Myself Ocean Yourself
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Deep Missing Myself Problem Surround
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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Illumination Light Myself Past Side
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Camera Hunting Thrill
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
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
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Difference Emotion Feeling Shame Shy Yourself
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Bone Hear Live Myself Time Weight
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
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Different Myself Silence World
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time

Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.

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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.

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