I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the w…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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