Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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