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

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

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

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.

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