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Regret Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

12 Regret quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer treats regret with the same layered storytelling that marks his novels, weaving subtle humor and melancholy together. Twelve entries provide a compact look at his thoughtful, often bittersweet, perspective on what we wish we could change.

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I regret how much I believed in the future.

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“My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

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The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

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Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in…

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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think…

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“In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.”

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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life…

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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life…

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“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the…

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“Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It…

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“I pointed at, Something. He pointed at, Nothing. I pointed at, Something. Nobody pointed at, I love you. There was no way…

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If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

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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 it at…

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“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”

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“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

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“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on…

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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…

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Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

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