“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.”
― Elizabeth Costello
― Elizabeth Costello
“He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.”
― Foe
― Foe
“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”
― The Lives of Animals
― The Lives of Animals
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