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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.

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

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life, Thinking, Limits

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life, Feelings, Emptiness
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Life, Smart, Book
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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