The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.