Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWords are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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What does it remember like?
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