I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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