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| f8c549c | A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. | animal-lovers cruelty-to-animals cruelty | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f6a0f8c | I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself.... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But animals live and die in that state, and seeing innocence violated in the form of cruelty to a mere duck can seem like the most barbaric act in the world. | cruelty-to-animals barbarism cruelty animals innocence pity | Sigrid Nunez |