"I spent my life learning to feel less."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

#Life Learning Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!”

Source : "What Philosophers Think" by Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, (p. 233), 2005.
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.”
“If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.”
“It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.”
“If somebody actually just walks up to you and says, â€˜Hey, do you want to do something out of the ordinary?â€™ there might be a little reluctance at first. But deep down, you want to do it. Itâ€™s adventure. Thatâ€™s what brings people in front of the camera. I also feel that when youâ€™re in your own environment thatâ€™s where you experiment, where you do all kinds of crazy stuff. So I thought, â€˜Okay, letâ€™s just see what happens if I allow that to unfold.â€™”
“My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.”
“Fiction doesnâ€™t tell us something we donâ€™t know, it tells us something we know but donâ€™t know that we know.”
“But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.”

Source : "How to Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2005.

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