"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."

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Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Safran Foer

#I Hate You Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.”
“In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.”

Source : Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 12, 2015.
“his get up and go had gone up and went”
“My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”
“Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.”

Source : John William Draper (1876). “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.151
“I try to be an example and live as Christ-like as I can.”
“Who's your soul's mate? Consciousness. Soul is your conscious mate. Guru keeps you conscious.”
“On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?”

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