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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Distance Fill Memories Reach Time Walk Yourself
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
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
She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Break Fingers Hands Herself Silence
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
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Alive Feeling Hands Heart Touch Yourself
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself

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