In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an … - Harry Mulisch

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I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

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In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

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Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

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All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

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That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

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Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

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If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

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