"A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat."

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Source : Harry Mulisch (2011). “The Assault”, p.43, Pantheon

Harry Mulisch

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“Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.”
“The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.”
“Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.”

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“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
“Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet: to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.”
“The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.”
“I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl in 2013.”
“One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.”

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