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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Day Oneself Start Worst
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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Feeling Myself Night Nightmare Wake Up
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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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
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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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
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
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Change Live Ourselves Respond
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Children Choice Decision Different Moments Place Present Reality Wife
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

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