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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Regret
Takes
Learn
Live
Life

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