Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.