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I came across a list titled "1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die", and immediately I succumbed to the challenge. This blog is the journal of my progress through one thousand and one significant works of literature.
• About This Blog
• The List
• Progress
• Help Desk
• Quotes, Commentaries, and Captions
The Thousand and One Books
• About This Blog
• The List
• Progress
• Help Desk
• Quotes, Commentaries, and Captions
The Thousand and One Books
“[But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen.] And all that cal.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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“It was not the feeling of completeness that I needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
— Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“I am not a bad person. I am a good person living in a bad time.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“I would give everything for them to live without violence. Peace. That is all that I would ever want from them. Not money and not even love. It is still possible. I know that now, and it is the cause of so much happiness in me.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated)
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“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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Page 68 of Everything Is Illuminated.
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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
— Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night’s sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn’t hear her husband’s ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s will be. But we learn to live in that love.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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