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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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