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Beyond the smooth boundaries of humanity, some individuals of the monstrous species have observed the other, or at least what remained after the classification we often hear referred to as the “evolutionary ladder.” That terrible moment—that disarming awareness—was like a violent shock that held a caress within it. The name of that caress is antispecism.

— Leonardo Caffo

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Infinite ways of being, which we call individuals, never cease to amaze us and reveal themselves—making existence much more like a symphony than the sad, unbearable soliloquy that has been recounted by anthropocentrism.

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