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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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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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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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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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He 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.
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What does it remember like?
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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