My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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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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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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