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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Death Mistake Myself
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth

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