And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThis is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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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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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 looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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 could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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