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You only had to look at Noah and his wife, or at their three sons and their three wives, to realize what a genetically messy lot the human race would turn out to be.

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The pigs and sheep you see walking around today are zombies compared to their effervescent ancestors on the Ark. They’ve had the stuffing knocked out of them. And some of them, like the turkey, have to endure the further indignity of having the stuffing put back into them – before they are braised or boiled.

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Noah couldn’t do anything without first wondering what He would think. Now that’s no way to go on. Always looking over your shoulder for approval – it’s not adult, is it?

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A question from the floor: are there tribes whose lexicon lacks the words 'I love you'? Or have they all died out.

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Don’t get me wrong. I’m not recommending one form of love over another. I don’t know if prudent or reckless love is the better, monied or penniless love the surer, heterosexual or homosexual love the sexier, married or unmarried love the stronger. I may be tempted towards didacticism, but this isn’t an advice column. I can’t tell you whether or not you’re in love. If you need ask, then you probably aren’t, that’s my only advice… But I can tell you why to love. Because the history of the world, which only stops at the half-house of love to bulldoze it into rubble, is ridiculous without it. The history of the world becomes brutally self-important without love. Our random mutation is essential because it is unnecessary. Love won’t change the history of the world (that nonsense about Cleopatra’s nose is strictly for sentimentalists), but it will do something much more important: teach us to stand up to history, to ignore its chin-out strut. I don’t accept your terms, love says; sorry, you don’t impress, and by the way what a silly uniform you’re wearing. Of course, we don’t fall in love to help out with the world’s ego problem; yet this is one of love’s surer effects.’Love and truth, that's the vital connection, love and truth. [. . .] How you cuddle in the dark governs how you see the history of the world.

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sexual orthodoxy and the exercise of power. If a President can’t keep his pants on, does he lose the right to rule us? If a public servant cheats on his wife does this make him more likely to cheat on the electorate? For myself, I’d rather be ruled by an adulterer, by some sexual rogue, than by a prim celibate or zipped-up spouse. As criminals tend to specialize in certain crimes, so corrupt politicians normally specialize in their corruption: the sexual blackguards stick to fucking, the bribe-takers to graft. In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life. I

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It would be comforting if love were an energy source which continued to glow after our deaths.

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Καθώς μετακινούμαι και ακουμπάω το καλάμι μου πάνω σε μια γάμπα που ο ύπνος έχει χαλαρώσει τους μυς της, εκείνη αισθάνεται τι κάνω και χωρίς να ξυπνήσει απλώνει το αριστερό της χέρι, παίρνει τα μαλλιά από τους ώμους της και τα σηκώνει στο κεφάλι της, για να μπορέσω να κουρνιάσω στον γυμνό λαιμό της. Κάθε φορά που αντιδρά έτσι, η ακρίβεια αυτής της ενύπνιας φιλοφρόνησης με κάνει ν' αναρριγώ από αγάπη.

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Δεν λέω ότι ο έρωτας θα σε κάνει ευτυχισμένο-προπαντός αυτο δε λέν λέω. Κι αν τείνω να πιστέψω κάτι, αυτό είναι πως θα σε κάνει δυστυχισμένο. είτε αμέσως, καθώς σε διαπερνά η αίσθηση της ασυμβατότητας, είτε αργότερα, όταν το σαράκι που δουλεευει αθόρυβα επί χρόνια θα κάνει το θρόνο του επισκόπου να καταρεύσει. Μπορεί όμως κανείς να το πιστεύει αυτό και να εξακολουθεί να επιμένει ότι η μόνη μας ελπίδα είναι ο έρωτας. Και είναι η μόνη μας ελπίδα ακόμα και αν μας προδώσει, παρόλο που μας προδίδει, επειδή μας προδίδει.

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Δεν μπορείς να γίνεις κάποιος άλλος χωρίς να πάψεις να είσαι αυτός που είσαι. Και αυτό κανένας δεν μπορεί να το αντέξει.

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Ξαναγυρίζεις εκεί απ'όπου ξεκίνησες. Έκανα 240.000 μίλια για να δω το φεγγάρι -κι αυτό που άξιζε πραγματικά να δω ήταν η γη.

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Σ'αγαπώ. Πρώτα πρώτα, καλά θα κάναμε να φυλάξουμε αυτή τη φράση σ'ένα ψηλό ράφι, σ'ένα τετράγωνο κουτί, πίσω από ένα τζάμι που πρέπει να σπάσουμε με τον αγκώνα μας, στην τράπεζα. Δεν πρέπει να την αφήνουμε όπου να'ναι στο σπίτι, σαν ένα σωληνάριο βιταμίνη C. Αν την έχουμε πρόχειρη, θα τη χρησιμοποιήσουμε χωρίς δεύτερη σκέψη, δεν θ'αντέξουμε στον πειρασμό. Λέμε βέβαια πως δεν θα το κάνουμε, αλλά θα το κάνουμε. Θα είμαστε μεθυσμένοι ή θα νιώθουμε μοναξιά ή -το πιθανότερο απ'όλα- θα θέλουμε να τρέφουμε ελπίδες, που να πάρει, και τότε η φράση θα χαθεί, θα καταναλωθεί, θα μαγαριστεί.

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And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be calm. ‘Oh, a hundred per cent, of course. Over many thousands of years, calculated by old time, of course. But yes, everyone takes the option, sooner or later.’‘So it’s just like the first time round? You always die in the end?’‘Yes, except don’t forget the quality of life here is much better. People die when they decide they’ve had enough, not before. The second time round it’s altogether more satisfying because it’s willed.’ She paused, then added, ‘As I say, we cater for what people want.’I hadn’t been blaming her. I’m not that sort. I just wanted to find out how the system worked. ‘So … even people, religious people, who come here to worship God throughout eternity … they end up throwing in the towel after a few years, hundred years, thousand years?’‘Certainly. As I said, there are still a few Old Heaveners around, but their numbers are diminishing all the time.

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How come I can’t make her happy, how come she can’t make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn’t taking place, the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength.

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Sejarah bukanlah apa yang terjadi. Sejarah hanyalah apa yang dituturkan sejarawan kepada kita.

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Επειδή δεν μπορείτε να τα βγάλετε πέρα χωρίς το όνειρο.

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poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

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For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.

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...και οι δυο λένε Σ'αγαπώ για να διώξουν τον φόβο, για να πεισθούν από τα λόγια για τα έργα, για να βεβαιωθούν ότι έχει επέλθει η πολυπόθητη κατάσταση, για να ξεγελάσουν τους εαυτούς τους με την ιδέα ότι δεν έχει παρέλθει ακόμη. Πρέπει να φυλαγόμαστε από τέτοιες χρήσεις. Το Σ'αγαπώ δεν πρέπει να βγαίνει στον κόσμο, να γίνεται νόμισμα, εμπορεύσιμη μετοχή, να μας αποφέρει κέρδη.

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Everything is connected, even the parts we don’t like, especially the parts we don’t like.

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Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for.

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Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

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Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning. I fall asleep more grudgingly, thrashing at the waves, either reluctant to let a good day depart or still bitching about a bad one. Different currents run through our spells of unconsciousness.

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Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes.

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The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining.

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And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyway); then move your hands outwards a short distance, and open them towards the object of your love. It’s just as eloquent as speech.

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Anyway... she's asleep, turned away from me on her side. The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me, so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body. As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep, she sense what I'm doing, and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on the top of her head, leaving me her bare nape to nestle in. Each time she does this I feel a shudder of love at the exactness of this sleeping courtesy. My eyes prickle with tears, and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love. At that moment, unconsciously, she's touched some secret fulcrum of my feelings for her.

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Listen to them again: ‘I love you.’ Subject, verb, object: the unadorned, impregnable sentence. The subject is a short word, implying the self-effacement of the lover. The verb is longer but unambiguous, a demonstrative moment as the tongue flicks anxiously away from the palate to release the vowel. The object, like the subject, has no consonants, and is attained by pushing the lips forward as if for a kiss. ‘I love you.’ How serious, how weighted, how freighted it sounds.

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You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a good lover, a good artist or a good politician without this capacity (you can get away with it, but that's not what I mean). Show me the tyrants who have been great lovers.

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we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

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The history of the world? Just voices echoing in the dark; images that burn for a few centuries and then fade; stories, old stories that sometimes seem to overlap; strange links, impertinent connections. We lie here in our hospital bed of the present (what nice clean sheets we get nowadays) with a bubble of daily news drip-fed into our arm. We think we know who we are, though we don't quite know why we're here, or how long we shall be forced to stay. And while we fret and write in bandaged uncertainty - are we a voluntary patient? - we fabulate. We make up a story to cover the facts we don't know or can't accept; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them. Our panic and our pain are only eased by soothing fabulation; we call it history.

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I love you." For a start, we'd better put these words on a high shelf; in a square box behind glass which we have to break with our elbow; in a bank. We shouldn't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand, we'll use them without thought; we won't be able to resist. Oh, we say we won't, but we will. We'll get drunk, or lonely, or - likeliest of all - plain damn hopeful, and there are the words gone, used up, grubbied. We think we might be in love and we're trying out the words to see if they're appropriate? How can we know what we think till we hear what we say? Come off it; that won't wash. These are grand words; we must make sure we deserve them. Listen to them again: "I love you.

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History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

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How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We'll have a play on the London stage within a year. A President is assissinated? You can have the book or the film or the filmed book or booked film. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of the poets. We have to understand it, of course, this catastrophe; to understand it, we have to imagine it, so we need the imaginative arts. But we also need to justify it and forgive it, this catastrophe, however minimally. Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that's what catastrophe is for.

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You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.

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Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

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Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

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