It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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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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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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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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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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This 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?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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