I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life i…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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