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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Comfortable Experience Organization Scare Word
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Animal Cat Dog Farm Illegal Practice Treat Way
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Feeling Important Love Romance Talk Togetherness
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
He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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Death Destroy Himself Live Note
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work

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