I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

"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.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

Love is exclusivity, selection.