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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Completeness
Emptiness
Empty
Needed
Feeling
Feelings
Life

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