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Jonathan Safran Foer

"It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that."

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"It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that."

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"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

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"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

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