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“Human beings all know that they are going to die, and so human cultures go to great lenghts to construct systems of meaning that dignify life and convince people that their lives have more meaning than those of the animals that die all around them. The extensive regulation of sex in many cultures, the attempt to link love to God and then to cut away the sex, is part of an elaborate defense against the gnawing fear of morality.”

“...lasting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural -not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will.”

“De todas las palabras desgastadas, erosionadas y ensuciadas que hay en nuestro vocabulario, -amor- es seguramente la más pestilente, maloliente y estropeada. Proferida desde un millón de púlpitos, lascivamente entonada en cientos de millones de altavoces, se ha convertido en un ultraje al buen gusto y a los sentimientos decentes, una obscenidad que cualquiera duda en pronunciar. Y sin embargo, es preciso pronunciarla, ya que, después de todo, el amor tiene la última palabra.”