What does it remember like?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe 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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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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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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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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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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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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