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61 " He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend. "
― Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated
62 " I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. "
63 " She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child. "
64 " She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be. "
65 " Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad. "
66 " What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife. "
67 " Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. "
68 " He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me many of his poems. I remember many of them. They were silly, you could say, and about love. He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to tell him, What good is all that love doing on paper? I said, Let love write on you for a little. But he was so stubborn. Or perhaps he was only timid. "
69 " They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life. "
70 " We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes? "
71 " She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. "
72 " It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. "
73 " If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand. "
74 " She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. "
75 " The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night. "
76 " It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world." "But it was not the end of the world," Grandfather said. "It was. He just did not come." "Why did he not come?" "This was the lesson we learned from everything that happened - there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us." "What if it was a challenge of your faith?" I said. "I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this." "What if it was not in his power?" "I could not believe in a God that could not stop what happened." "What if it was man and not God that did all of this?" "I do not believe in man, either. "
77 " It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining. "
78 " No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.) "
79 " This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? "
80 " There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. "