...we must be, above all, capable of 'seeing' another person--simply opening one's eyes will not do. One needs a peculiar kind of initial curiosity which is much more integral, deep-rooted and broad than mere curiosity about things... or even about the particular acts of people (for example, gossip). One must be vitally curious about humanity, and more concretely, about the individual as a living totality, an individual modus of existence... But note that such curiosity, in truth, presupposes many other things. It is a vital luxury which only organisms with a high level of vitality can possess. The weak individual is incapable of disinterested, initial attention to what occurs outside of himself... This paradox of 'disinterested' interest permeates love in all its functions and actions...