All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

I'm afraid love is just a word.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.