Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThis is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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