Certo che ti farò del male. Certo che me ne farai. Certo che ce ne faremo. Ma questa è la condizione stessa dell’esistenza. Farsi primavera, signific… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen... The desert is beautiful," the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..." I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.