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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAlso, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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