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• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form…
• They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free…
• Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my…
• Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an…
• To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a…
• Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to…
• ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to…
• I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.
• Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is…
• My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left.…
• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and…
• The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

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