Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. It seems that they are very beauti… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful.

Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Die Vollkommenheit ist unerreichbar. Gewiß ist die Vollkommenheit unerreichbar. Sie hat nur den Sinn, deinen Weg wie ein Stern zu leiten. Sie ist Richtung und Streben auf etwas hin.

Conozco un planeta en el que hay un señor coloradote. Nunca ha olido una flor. Nunca ha mirado una estrella. Nunca ha querido a nadie. Nunca ha hecho más que sumas. Y todo el día anda repitiendo como tú: “¡Soy un hombre serio! ¡Soy un hombre serio!”. Y con eso se hincha de orgullo. Pero eso no es un hombre, ¡es un hongo!…

I picked up one and then a second and then a third of these stones, finding them at about the rate of one stone to the acre. And here is where my adventure became magical, for in a striking foreshortening of time that embraced thousands of years, I had become the witness of this miserly rain from the stars. the marvel of marvels was that there on the rounded back of the planet, between this magnetic sheet and those stars, a human consciousness was present in which as in a mirror that rain could be reflected.