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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
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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Different Myself Silence World
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Children Food Growth Ourselves People Strange Upset
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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Animal Irony Time
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Comfortable Experience Organization Scare Word
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

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