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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Deep Equality Respond Silence
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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Heart Meaning Myself People Pieces Word
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Absence Hate Himself Love Presence
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Believe Future Greatness Learning Time Treat
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
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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Beginning Fall In Love Herself Ordinary Time
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Greatness Live Opportunity Ourselves Value
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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Hands Myself Side Thinking
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

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