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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Bad Character Goodness Myself Person Unknown
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
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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Illumination Light Myself Past Side
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Empty Feeling Myself Stone
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Life Love Necessary Possible Yourself
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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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Break Up Bury Himself Leaving Live Myself Try Writing
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Different Myself Silence World
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need

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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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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