What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering …

Jonathan Safran Foer
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What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at. ✨ Eating Animals. Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.
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