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“Vatia was no longer looking at me; she was rolling a round of dough around one of the hams, which had been scored, smeared with honey, and stuffed with figs. Her method was precise and the dough formed perfectly around the meat in a way I had never been able to achieve before. "I see what you mean about chilling the dough," I said, amazed. "This is what I wanted to show you." She directed my gaze toward a few strangely cut pieces of dough in front of her. "I don't understand." "Watch." She picked up the pieces and attached them to the pastry-wrapped ham, her thin fingers carefully sealing the pieces of dough to the ham by dipping them in water. In a few moments she sat back. "It's a pig!" I exclaimed, pleased with the ears and snout she had added to the ham. "I hoped you would like it," she said, her voice filling with pride. "I had the idea when you first told me what we were doing. I had a pig pictured in my mind and thought it might be pleasing to guests if I could re-create it." "Do you think they will bake without issue?" I asked, worried. "They should. Also, I thought I would brush them with egg so they are shiny when they come out of the oven." "Please do." I could not take my eyes off the little pig. It was brilliant and I wished I had thought of it.”

“Vatican I, for example, affirms that the Church herself, by reason of her marvelous extension, her eminent holiness, and her inexhaustible fruitfulness in every good thing, as well as by her Catholic unity and invincible stability, is a great and perpetual motive of belief and an irrefutable witness to her own divine mission. In a word, the Catholic Church has been endowed with all the mark necessary to allow any man of good faith to adhere to her as the true Church.”

“Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.”

“Vaughan operates in a different way from me and most of the policy team. He decides to crack the China market with his golf clubs, sending updates about whom he has golfed with and how this might lead to opportunities to meet with key government officials. The actual work, preparing briefings, tracking regulations, or analysing political developments, he delegates to interns, or the women who work for him.”

“Vaya aquí la consabida advertencia sobre los derechos de reproducción y demás zarandajas, cosa que, para el siglo veinticinco, de poco nos va a servir; quizá, sin embargo, en el año 2099, fecha en la que suceden los hechos que aquí se narran, sigamos todos vivos para comprobar que nadie ha hecho ni una triste fotocopia ilegítima y que los formatos de lectura digital no han cambiado nada... Se nos ve preocupados por el pirateo, ¿verdad?”

“Vaya, que atemorizante y maravilloso es que las palabras pueden cambiar nuestras vidas con tan solo encontrarse una a un lado de la otra.”

“Ve düşündüm ki, eğer bu gençler bilmiş olsalardı ki Kur'an'da, "İslamdan başka dinlere rağbet edenler sapıktırlar" ya da "müşrikleri nerede görürseniz öldürün" ya da "Ey inananlar! Babalarınız, kardeşlerinizi - eğer küfrü imana tercih ediyorlarsa- dost edinmeyin" gibi ve daha bunlara benzer nice ayetler ve bu ayetler doğrultusunda buyruklar (hadisler v s...) vardır ve Muhammed bu tür hükümlere dayanarak "kâfirlere'’ savaş açmış, ganimetler/esirler almış, kılıç yoluyla insanları İslama sokmuştur, işte o zaman, ellerindeki bu m alzeme ve bilgiyle şeriatçıların hakkından gelebilirler ve onların, "İslam hoşgörü dinidir; İslamcla zorlama yoktur" şeklindeki yalanlarını ortaya çıkarabilirlerdi.”

“Ve tahtından indirmek istediğiniz bir despotsa söz konusu olan, önce onun içinizde kurulu tahtını ortadan kaldırın. Bir zorba özgür ve gururlu olanlara nasıl hükmedebilir, eğer onların kendi özgürlüklerinde bir zorbalık, kendi gururlarında bir utanç yoksa? Ve üstünüzden atmak istediğiniz bir yükümlülükse söz konusu olan, bu yükümlülük size dayatılmadı, onu siz seçtiniz.”

“Veamos si encontramos otro camino para imaginarnos cómo se debe sentir un hombre que está dispuesto a renunciar al peso, por lo general tan ligero para otros, de la vida. Porque solo si somos capaces de sentir lo que él siente tenemos derecho a hablar sobre ello. La naturaleza humana -continué-, tiene sus límites: puede soportar la felicidad, el sufrimiento, el dolor, sólo hasta cierto grado, sucumbe en cuanto lo ha sobrepasado. En esto no se trata entonces de si alguien es débil o fuerte, sino sólo de si es capaz de soportar su grado de sufrimiento, ya sea moral o físico. Y al mismo tiempo me parece equivocado decir que un hombre que se quita la vida es un cobarde, así como sería inoportuno llamar cobarde a alguien que muere por una fiebre maligna. Reconoces que denominamos enfermedad mortal a aquella que ataca la naturaleza de modo que por un lado va consumiendo sus fuerzas y por el otro las neutraliza, de tal manera que ya no es posible que éstas se repongan. [...] apliquemos esto al espíritu. Mira al ser humano en sus limitaciones, cómo influyen en él ciertas impresiones, se fijan las ideas, hasta que una pasión que se agiganta le quita toda serenidad a sus sentidos y lo arruina. Será en vano -agregué- que el hombre sensato y sereno quiera evitar la situación, será inútil que lo aconseje. Es lo mismo que un hombre sano, que estando junto al lecho de un enfermo, tampoco puede traspasarle ni lo más mínimo de su energía. [...] amigo mío -exclamé-, el hombre es el hombre y la chispa e inteligencia que puede llegar a tener no vale mucho cuando golpean las pasiones y lo llevan hasta los límites de lo humano. Oh, mi corazón estaba a punto de estallar. Y nos separamos sin que nos hubiéramos entendido. Aunque, en este mundo, no es fácil que uno llegue a entender al otro.”

“Vecchie verità e antica magia, rivoluzione e invenzione cospirano per distrarci dalla passione che in un modo o nell'altro ci sconfigge tutti. E alla fine, stanchi di questa complessità, noi sogniamo di quel tempo remoto in cui sedevamo sulle ginocchia di nostra madre e ogni bacio era la consumazione del desiderio. Cosa possiamo fare, se non cercare l'abbraccio che ora deve racchiudere il paradiso e l'inferno: il nostro destino inevitabile?”