People with nothing to declare carry the most.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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