I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will


Jonathan Safran Foer

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Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than thei...
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The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is noth...
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be...
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The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
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SADNESS OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness...
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
Everything moved me. A do...
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I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
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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...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive f...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convinc...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is someth...
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surpris...
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This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more th...
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newsp...
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Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “I...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for for...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li...
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We slept in the same bed.
There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessar...
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In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that ...
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It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
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Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why....
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Being reliable is something. Being good.
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You can't love anything more than something you miss.
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You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
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I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and mor...
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From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but ...
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Anyway.
I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are app...
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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on a...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
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I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shame...
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...and when is enough proof enough?
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E allora quanta sofferenza è accettabile? È questa la base di tutto, ed è questo che ognuno di no...
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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits ...
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Jacob wrestled with God for the blessing. He wrestled with Esau for the blessing. He wrestled with I...
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God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
...This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against something, sometime...
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor...
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I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the ro...
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What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...
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Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was mad...
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I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...
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Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenl...
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Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...
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A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But m...
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At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It...
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The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a gi...
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This is the sixty-nine,” I told him,
presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my finger...
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Puoi levarti anche le calze?" Gli chiedeva lei. "E i calzoni?"
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THE PROBLEM OF GOOD: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY BAD PEOPLE
(SEE ...
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He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
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Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, s...
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I have been waiting for you for so long.”
I pointed to the car. “We are searching for Trach...
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Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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