I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes you have to put your fears in order.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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There were 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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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