# Quote — Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

> It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake.

- Author: [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md)
- Book: [Everything is Illuminated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/everything-is-illuminated/it-feels-like

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> My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

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> She spent the afternoon staring at their front door. "Waiting for someone?" Yankel asked. "What color is this?" He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, "It certainly tastes like red." "Yes, it is red, isn't it?" "Seems so." She buried her head in her hands. "But couldn’t it be just a bit more red?" (pp. 79-80)

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> Words never mean what we want them to mean.

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