Andalusia Plains

Midtown

"New York reveals itself only at a particular height, a particular distance, a particular speed. These are not the height, the distance, or the speed of the pedestrian. The city is strikingly like the great Andalusia plains—monotonous when you pass through on foot, superb and varying when crossed by car."
Jean-Paul Sartre, We Have Only This Life to Live

Heart of the City

"A wild sky above great parallel rails—that, first and foremost, is New York. In the heart of the city, you are in the heart of nature."
Jean-Paul Sartre, We Have Only This Life to Live

Crowds of New York

"Nowhere do I feel freer than amid the crowds of New York. This light, ephemeral city, which every morning and evening, beneath the curious rays of the sun, seems a mere juxtaposition of rectangular parallelepipeds, never stifles or depresses. Here you may suffer the anguish of loneliness, but not that of crushing defeat."
Jean-Paul Sartre, We Have Only This Life to Live

Wild Beast

Chrysler Building

"The beauty of the New York sky comes from its being raised so far above our heads by the skyscrapers. Pure and lonely as a wild beast, it mounts guard and stands watch over the city."
Jean-Paul Sartre, We Have Only This Life to Live

Colonial

"New York is a colonial city, a campsite. All the hostility and cruelty of nature are present in this city, the most prodigious monument humanity has ever raised to itself."
Jean-Paul Sartre, We Have Only This Life to Live