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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
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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Lost Memories Morning Shadow Yourself
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Breathe Father Process Tree Understand Young
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste Yourself
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Word Yourself
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Empty Exact Forest Ocean Oneself Type
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

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