Quotes from bookEverything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz in 2005.
“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
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“he came to think, It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say”
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“Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”
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“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
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“… and when is enough proof enough?”
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“We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?”
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“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”
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“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
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“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”
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“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
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