Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.