Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.