Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERYou cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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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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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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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