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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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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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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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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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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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