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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Avoid Finding Herself Mirror Powerful
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Bruise Earn Feeling Hate Life Yourself
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Difference Emotion Feeling Shame Shy Yourself
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
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
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Factory People Reality See Willing
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Animal Born Color Different Herself
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Creature Live Love Memories Reminder Story World
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

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