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  1. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    GLI EBREI HANNO SEI SENSI Tatto, gusto, vista, odorato, udito... memoria. Mentre i gentili fanno esperienza del mondo mediante i sensi tradizionali e usano la memoria solo come strumento di second'ordine per interpretare i fatti, per gli ebrei la memoria non è meno primaria della puntura di uno spillo, o del suo argenteo luccichio, o del gusto del sangue che sprigiona il dito. L'ebreo è punto da uno spillo e ricorda altri spilli. E' solo riconducendo la puntura dello spillo ad altre punture - quando sua madre tentava di aggiustargli la manica con il suo braccio dentro; quando le dita di suo nonno si addormentarono accarezzando la fronte madida di suo bisnonno; quando Abramo saggiò il coltello per essere sicuro che Isacco non sentisse dolore - che l'ebreo appura perchè faccia male. Quando un ebreo incontra uno spillo, domanda: Che cosa mi ricorda? * Estratto del Libro degli antecedenti
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  2. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    Brod was afraid any tears of her own would cause the walls of the old house to give way, so she sandbagged them behind her eyes, exiled them to someplace deeper, safer.
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  3. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss.
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  4. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness.
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  5. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    How, after all, can one miss something one has never known?
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  6. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    And she was in love.
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  7. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.
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  8. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    Brod's life was a slow realisation that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.
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  9. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?
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  10. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    You are very funny Jonathan." "No. That is the last thing I want to be." "Why? To be funny is a great thing." "No it's not." "Why is this?" "I used to thing that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. You know what I mean?" "Yes of course." "But now I think it's the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world."
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  11. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    I had to do it for myself.
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  12. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Everything Is Illuminated

    She told him that she wished there were another commandment, an eleventh etched into the tablets: Do not change.
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