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The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Fool
Pinched
Suffering
Pathetic
Worthless
Ends
Helpless
Thought
Narrow
Doe
Justify
Foolish
Mess

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