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She is deranged," I said, "but so so playful."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She smiled a smile to bring a thousand ships to harbor.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a touch, even a light and passing touch, reminded them of their long togetherness. A palm on a neck: it all flooded back. A head leaned upon a shoulder: the chemicals surged, the memory of love. At times, it was almost impossible to cross the distance between their bodies, to reach out. At times, it was impossible. Each new the feelin..
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Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The apartment had never been darker. I turned on the lamp. It became bright around us. The apartment became darker.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Koroche, samoe krutoe, chto ia vychital v National Geographic, eto chto chislo liudei, zhivushchikh seichas na zemle, bol'she, chem chislo umershikh za vsiu istoriiu chelovechestva. Drugimi slovami, esli vse odnovremenno zakhotiat sygrat' <>, komu-to pridetsia zhdat', potomu chto cherepov na vsekh ne khvatit!
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Bol'she vsego ia obozhal tishinu za mig do nachala.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Nam nuzhny gromadneishie karmany -- takie, chtoby v nikh umeshchalis' nashi sem'i, i nashi druz'ia, i dazhe liudi, kotorykh net v nashikh spiskakh, neznakomye, kotorykh my vse ravno khotim zashchitit'. Nam nuzhny karmany dlia munitsipal'nykh okrugov i tselykh gorodov, karmany, sposobnye vmestit' vsiu Vselennuiu. [...] No ia znal, chto karmany ne byvaiut takimi bol'shimi. V kontse kontsov vse poteriaiut vsekh. Net takogo izobreteniia, chtoby..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ee nichto ne smushchalo. Ia ei tak zavidovala, potomu chto sama vse vremia smushchalas' i stradala ot etogo. Ona obozhala skakat' na posteli. Ona skakala stol'ko let, chto odnazhdy na moikh glazakh na matrase razoshlis' shvy. Nebol'shaia komnata zapolnilas' per'iami. Nash smekh ne daval im osest'. Ia podumala pro ptits. Smogli by oni letat', esli by nikto nigde ne smeialsia?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ona napisala: ia by khotela snova stat' devochkoi, i chtoby vsia zhizn' snova byla vperedi. Ia stradala chashche, chem sledovalo. A radosti, kotorye mne vypali, ne vsegda radovali. Teper' ia by prozhila inache. Kogda ia byla v tvoem vozraste, dedushka kupil mne rubinovyi braslet. On byl bol'shoi i boltalsia na zapiast'e. Ne braslet, a tseloe ozherel'e. Pozdnee dedushka priznavalsia, chto spetsial'no prosil iuvelira sdelat' ego takim. On kho..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ia vpervye zanimalas' liubov'iu. Interesno, znal li on ob etom? Eto bylo vse ravno kak plakat'. Ia podumala: Zachem liudi voobshche zanimaiutsia liubov'iu?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I am not a bad person," he said. "I am good person who has lived un a bad time."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ia vspomnil pro svoi mobil'nik. U menia ostaetsia neskol'ko sekund. Komu ia pozvoniu? Chto skazhu? Ia podumal pro vse, chto liudi kogda-libo drug drugu govoriat, i kak kazhdyi chelovek umret -- kto-to cherez millisekundu, kto-to cherez neskol'ko dnei, ili mesiatsev, ili 76,5 let, esli on tol'ko rodilsia. Vse rodivsheesia obrecheno na smert', a znachit, nashi zhizni -- kak neboskreby. Dym podnimaetsia s raznoi skorost'iu, no goriat vse, i my..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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ia ne mog sebe etogo ob'iasnit', v neob'iasnimosti i zakliuchalas' prelest', eto normal'no -- ne razbirat'sia v sebe.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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ei nuzhno podtverzhdenie moei liubvi, tol'ko eto vsem drug ot druga i nuzhno, ne sama liubov', a podtverzhdenie, chto ona v nalichii, kak svezhie batareiki v karmannom fonarike iz avariinogo nabora v shkafu v koridore...
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Ia sprosil, otkuda ona stol'ko vsego znaet. Ona skazala: <>. [...] <> -- sprosil mister Blek. Ona skazala: <>
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Ona skazala: <>. Ia sprosil, chto znachit <>. <>. -- <> -- <>.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Utrom v pristupe zhguchei zhalosti k samomu sebe ia vdrug osoznal, kak osoznaiut v minuty ozareniia prostoe reshenie nerazreshimoi zadachi: dal'she otkladyvat' nel'zia.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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my brain started misbehaving, and
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Who's Marilyn Monroe?" "Sex!" --
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good." "And"
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for an original offense that no one could remember. Or for no offense at all.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She found the company that made her favorite architectural model trees. They weren't the most realistic, they weren't even well made. She didn't like them because they evoked trees but because they evoked the sadness that trees evoke.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It's better to lose something than never to have had
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth of about eating animals?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. It is the subject of extensive scholarly debate whether stillborn babies are subject to the same revelations--if we could say that they have lived without endings. This debate, of course, demands a close examination of that more profound question: Was the world first created or ended? When the Lord our God breathed on the universe, was that a gen..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, "I mount the autobus for an hour to work all day doing things I hate. You want to know why? It is for you, Alexi-stop-spleening-me! One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a family."
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoiris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cuticula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, panuelo... Nada la conmovia. (...) Nada conseguia ser mas de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia.
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universe
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I'm possibly possible.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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scientists now argue that the primordial source of all flu strains is migrating aquatic birds such as ducks and geese that have roamed the earth for more than a hundred million years. The flu, it turns out, is all about our relationship with birds.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Il peggio arrivo verso la fine. Moltissime persone morirono proprio alla fine, e io non sapevo se avrei resistito un altro giorno. Un contadino, un russo, Dio lo benedica, vide in che stato ero, entro in casa e ne usci con un pezzo di carne per me.>> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <
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long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there--not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Punch with your mouth and talk with your feet.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he'd managed to live forty-two years without proximity to mortality. And that amazement was always followed by the fear that the statistics would catch up with him and offer a lot of death at once. And he wouldn't be ready.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. For some, that irrationality leads to a kind of resignation. Food
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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This isn't animal experimentation, where you can imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it? It's easy t..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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What about frozen planes, which could be safe from heat-seeking missiles? What about subway turnstiles that were also radiation detectors? What about incredibly long ambulances that connected every building to a hospital? What about parachutes in fanny packs? What about guns with sensors in the handles that could detect if you were angry, and if you were, they wouldn't fire, even if you were a police officer? What about Kevlar overalls? Wha..
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
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Jonathan Safran Foer |