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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
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It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.'Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like "Reading in bed," and "Giving a bath," and "Running while holding the seat of a bicycle." Parenthood contains such moments of warmth and intimacy, but isn't them. It's cleaning up. The great bulk of family life involves no exchange of love, and no meaning, only fulfillment. Not the fulfillment of feeling fulfilled, but of fulfilling that which now falls to you.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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