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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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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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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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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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.
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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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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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