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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
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
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Hard Live Person Place Travel
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
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
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Bury Communication Hide Himself Hurt Myself Word
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Breathe Father Process Tree Understand Young
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Appreciation Division Genius Infinte Sadness Separate
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
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
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

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