You are all cowards because you live in a world that is "once-removed", if I may excerpt you. I do not have any homage for anyone in your family, with exceptions of your grandmother, because you all are in the proximity of love, and all disavow love.
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Sometimes one is meant, though, to live bits of one's life once-removed. This would be justified not in the proximity of love but in it's absence. Don't you think? Is it still justifiable to disavow the absence of love?
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