Everything Is Illuminated Quotes

• In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

  Milan Kundera

  Sunset, Auras, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988.

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• It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Past, Light, Sides

  "Everything Is Illuminated". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sad, Lost Love, Grief

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love You, Thinking, Most Romantic

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To feel alone is to be alone.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Feels

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• Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Our Love, Affliction, Cures

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Past, Light

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• I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Eye, Blue, Stories

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Grandfather, Alex, Good Person

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• I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Long Distance Relationship, Ocean, White

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.224, Penguin UK

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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

  Family, Hate, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.

  Eugene Hutz

  Girl, Dancer, Want

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• Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doe

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I spent my life learning to feel less.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life Learning, Feels

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Wall, Fall

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002.

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• The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Being Sad, Knows

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words never mean what we want them to mean.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Want, Language

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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• Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hurt, Children, Loss

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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• The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Overcoming, Way

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, Absence

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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