The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROne of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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