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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
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
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Camera Hunting Thrill
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Goodness Hope People Time Yourself
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 love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
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
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
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
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
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Feeling Life Loud Music Myself Stranger
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
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
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

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