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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
Foolish
Mess
Fool
Pinched
Suffering
Pathetic
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Worthless
Thought
Helpless
Doe
Narrow
Justify
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