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Every Day (2012)
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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.
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People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.
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I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.
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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to — I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
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And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
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Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.
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I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.
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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
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There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
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He doesn't just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.
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Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.
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When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
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It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.
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I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.
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It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
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The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.
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They don't have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.
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Being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you're trapped.
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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
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This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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September 7, 1972
(age 51)
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