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I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

— Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

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"My Feelings" (p. 180)

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