We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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