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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Jonathan Safran Foer

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Better Country Home Invention Live World
I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Empty Feeling Myself Stone
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Believe Future Greatness Learning Time Treat
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology Time
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Blood Bruise Cry Feeling Life Myself Worst

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