35 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer about life
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.
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People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.
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I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.
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This is what we're like. We are broken individuals, committing to what will be a broken union in a broken world.
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I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.
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