Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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What does it remember like?
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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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