"[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Reason Quotes #Surviving Quotes

“The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.”
“But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.”
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
“All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.”
“I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.”
“As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.507
“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.”
“The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.”

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