I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that …

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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