I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.
I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.
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