Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

...I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.

The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Written By Annie Dillard

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