This essay addresses in a subtle and unexpected way the «essential infinitives» of the human being: to live, to think and to love. And it constitutes, without a doubt, a valuable philosophical contribution, developed from the concept of «withdrawal of feeling». The unique style of the author penetrates serenely but tenaciously, like a fine rain, proposing a revealing itinerary through pages dedicated to commotion, desire, creation, friendship, revolution and gratitude. And from the beginning he anticipates the most nuclear: "Here, in the outskirts, genesis and degeneration, life and death, the human and the inhuman—since only the human can be inhuman—proximity and indifference. Here, on the outskirts, the evil is very deep, but the goodness is even deeper. Here, on the outskirts, nothing makes more sense than shelter and generosity. Here, on the outskirts, we not only live, but we are capable of life».