"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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"Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts."

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"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."

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