If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we wil…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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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. Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002.
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