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Oskar Schell Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer

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“She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to a live a life in a world from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.”

                  - Everything is Illuminated 

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"He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad."
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Jonathan Safran Foer Quotation Life Happiness Philosophy Heart
"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 (Everything is Illuminated)

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Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated Insta-Reblog Love Favorite Quote Author

One of my favorite parts is the beginning of the first chapter, where Stephen Hawking tells about a famous scientist who was giving a lecture about how the earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the solar system, and whatever. Then a woman in the back of the room raised her hand and said, “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” So the scientist asked her what the tortoise was standing on. And she said, “But it’s turtles all the way down!” I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005.

Quote Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Book Novel
trapeze-swinger: acciotriforce: “My legal name is Alexander Perchov, but all of my friends dub me Alex, because this is much more flaccid to utter” “Many girls want to be carnal with me because I’m such a premium dancer.” Eugene Hutz, you hot Ukranian P.O.A.

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“My legal name is Alexander Perchov, but all of my friends dub me Alex, because this is much more flaccid to utter”

“Many girls want to be carnal with me because I’m such a premium dancer.”

Eugene Hutz, you hot Ukranian P.O.A.

Eugene Hutz Everything is Illuminated Gogol Bordello Jonathan Safran Foer Alexander Perchov
"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
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