You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThere 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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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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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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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