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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Car Design Faith Writing
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need
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
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love Sex Writing 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
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
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
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
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
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Bone Hear Live Myself Time Weight
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?

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