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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
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
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Missing Myself Sorry Wonder
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
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Imposter Myself Recognition Share Smile Wrong
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song

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