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"What tho' the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile?" — Reginald Heber
"You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses." — Walter Benjamin, "Main features of my first impression of hashish," December 18, 1927
"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry