Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI never confused what I had with what I was.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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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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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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