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The Humans

Book by Matt Haig · 28 quotes · Humans, Life, Madness

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“She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build”

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“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”

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“Beauty-be not caused said Emily Dickinson. 'It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a sunset. The crashing of ocean waves on a beach is created by tides which are themselves the result of gravitational forces exerted by the sun and the moon and the rotation of the Earth. Those are causes. The mystery lies in how those things become beautiful. And they wouldn't have been beautiful once, at least not to my eyes. To experience beauty on Earth you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.”

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“The truth is, you see, however much they would beg to disagree, humans don't actually like to win. Or rather, they like winning for about ten seconds, but if they keep on winning, they end up actually having to think about other things, like life or death. The only thing humans like less than winning is losing, but at least something can be done about that. With absolute winning, there is nothing to be done. They just have to deal with it.”

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“Now, consider this. A human life is on average 80 Earth years or around 30,000 Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married, or they don’t get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realise they would have done it the same, and then they die. Into the great black nothing. Out of space. Out of time. The most trivial of trivial zeroes. And that’s it, the full caboodle. All confined to the same mediocre planet.”

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“او پانزده ساله بود. این یعنی به یک زیرگروه خاص انسانی به اسم«نوجوان»تعلق داشت، مهم ترین مشخصه های این گروه مقاومت اندک در مقابل جاذبه، مجموعه لغاتی از غرولند ها، فقدان آگاهی مکانی، مقدار زیادی فکر به جنس مخالف، و اشتهای پایان ناپذیر برای غلات صبحانه بود.”

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“In fiecare viata exista un moment. O criza. Una care spune: „Ceea ce cred e gresit”. Li se intampla tuturor, singura diferenta e cum ii schimba acea informatie. In cele mai multe situatii, e pur si simplu vorba de un caz de ingropare a acelei informatii si apoi a pretinde ca ea nu se afla acolo. Asa imbatranesc oamenii. Asta este, in cele din urma, ceea ce le increteste fetele si le indoaie spinarile si le micsoreaza gurile si ambitiile. Povara acestei negari. Stresul cauzat de ea. Acest lucru nu le este unic umanilor. Unicul si cel mai mare act de curaj sau de nebunie pe care il poate face cineva, oricine, este actul schimbarii.”

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“Umanii faceau mereu lucruri pe care nu la placea sa le faca. De fapt, in conformitate cu cea mai buna estimare a mea, in orice moment dat, doar 0.3 procente dintre umani faceau, in mod activ, ceva ce le placea sa faca si, chiar si cand o faceau, simteau o cantitate arzatoare de vina in legatura cu asta si isi promiteau, cu ravna lor insisi ca se vor reintoarce la a face ceva oribil de neplacut foarte, foarte curand.”

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