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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
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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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
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
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Existence heavy Myself Time Universe
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Admit Effort Goal Human Open Romance Temporary Time Volume
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Enemy Myself Ordinary Thinking Way
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
There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth

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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