The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there, 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers,… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings...

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you.

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, significa accettare il rischio dell’inverno. Farsi presenza, significa accettare il rischio dell’assenza.

When I opened my eyes, I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. But I did not fall. From nape to heel I discovered myself bound to earth. I felt a sort of appeasement in surrendering to it my weight. Gravitation had become as sovereign as love. The earth, I felt, was supporting my back, sustaining me, lifting me up, transporting me through the immense void of night.