动物
The capacity of the human mind for forming and manipulating symbols is what sets us apart from other animals.
Purposive behavior in animals and men.
Behavior is governed by the same laws in humans and animals.
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.
La memoria es un animal extraño: muerde cuando menos lo esperas.
"The stories we tell about animals say more about us than they do about them."
"There is a world of difference between the love we feel for a wild creature and the love we feel for a human being."
El hombre es el único animal que tropieza dos veces con la misma piedra.
The heart is a wild animal, and it doesn’t follow rules.
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.