I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPeople with nothing to declare carry the most.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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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.
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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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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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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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