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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Alone Myself
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
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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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
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Protect Sadness Yourself
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
Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Art Drive Love Myself Politics Purpose
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
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
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
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Imagination Myself Ocean Yourself
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word

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