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I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love, Romantic, Mean

Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.182, Penguin UK

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She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Jonathan Safran Foer

Shells, Saws

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

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Order, Sometimes

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Heart, Technology, Worry

"Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2016.

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

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

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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

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Regret, I Regret

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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Moving, Opportunity, Live Your Life

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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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Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life, Regret, Future

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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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Life, I Hate You, Weight

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Why I'm not where you are ...

Jonathan Safran Foer

Where You Are

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 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 only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

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Sadness, Overcoming, Way

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

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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life, Thinking, Limits

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Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food, Safety, Responsible

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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

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Different, Done, World

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Happiness, Positivity, Thinking

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Scare, Comfort, Vivid

"Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

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One Day, Someone You Love

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

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Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Want, Shyness, Turns

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

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I Hate You, Loving You, Missing

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

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People, Understanding, Understanding Yourself

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

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Goodbye, Persons, Hard

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fall, Rivers, Tree

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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