More quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."
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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."
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"It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine."
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"...and when is enough proof enough?"
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"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."
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