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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

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Blood Bruise Cry Feeling Life Myself Worst
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 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
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
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
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
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Difference Emotion Feeling Shame Shy Yourself
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Deep Myself Need Philosophy
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth

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