Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you h…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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